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

Thu Aug 24 11:20:32 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

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.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University