On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 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. Cool, suppose I have the patience to wait, will the fw driver work on a running system that booted from the array with a stock CentOS kernel? Or do I need to compile my own kernel with the fw driver included (I prefer not to go down that path)