[CentOS] 3Ware 9500 vs 9550 vs CentOS 4.latest kernel

chrism at imntv.com chrism at imntv.com
Thu Aug 24 11:37:14 UTC 2006


Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 6:02am, chrism at imntv.com wrote
>
>> Is anyone having issues with these particular cards (especially the 
>> newer SATAII variant) and the stock CentOS kernels?   Are they well 
>> supported enough such that a "yum update" suffices to keep them 
>> synced up with patches without having to hand edit the kernel or 
>> build special modules from 3Ware each time?
>
> Up to centos 4.3, the 9500 cards benefit from a driver upgrade and the 
> 9550 cards demand one.  In the 4.4 kernel, however, the driver was 
> upgarded and should handle all cards quite well out of the box.
>

Sweet!  :)

Thanks for the quick reply.

Cheers,




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