[CentOS] SCSI cards -- 3Ware Escalade 9550SX (9500S+PowerPC400)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:29 +0100, Harald=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Finn=E5s?=
wrote:
> This is the first time I've seen the 95x0SX mentioned.

It's the 9550SX.  Don't confuse it with the 9500S.

The 9550SX adds a PowerPC 400 series embedded microprocessor for off-
loading RAID-5/buffering to the traditional 64-bit ASIC design.

The 9500S has only the 64-bit ASIC, and does buffering to DRAM directly
(not nearly as capable).

The 9550SX really raises the bar on feature support of the 3Ware
products, putting some things in hardware that people are paying storage
vendors for doing in software (typically in a dedicated, external
storage device).

> Does anyone know if it works with the regular 3ware kernel sata driver
> or does it require a driver disk during installation? 

>From what I can tell, it can use the existing "3w-9xxx" driver.  But you
should definitely build the new 9.3.0.1 release (as well as upgrade the
3DM2 release) to support the added capabilities of the added PowerPC.


-- 
Bryan J. Smith     b.j.smith at ieee.org     http://thebs413.blogspot.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if
you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman