On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 at 7:20pm, Remco Barendse wrote > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 at 9:20am, Bryan J. Smith wrote > > > >> Claims to have fixed the write performance issues with > >> multiple volumes. Haven't tried it personally (I do not have > >> a 9500S card, and I have only installed one once for a > >> client). > >> > >> NOTE: This (9.2.1.1) is an actual, formal, supported release > >> -- not an unsupported engineering release. > > > > It does seem a bit rushed, though, as the firmware included in the driver > > is *older* than the firmware one downloads separately as part of the > > codeset. ?? > > Is it possible to upgrade the firmware from CentOS? I'm using CentOS 4 > with the built-in kernel module. > > The box doesn't have a floppy drive or anything so it's no so easy to > update from floppy. My boot volume is on the 3Ware You can use the 'fw' driver that 3ware distributes. But, as I mentioned above, in this case it doesn't include the latest firmware, which is the one that actually fixes the multiple-unit bug. So you have to manually flash it from a DOS environment. If you can't shoehorn a floppy in temporarily, have a look at PXE. Or, just wait -- 3ware says on the website they'll be releasing an updated driver with the right firmware. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University