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

Thu Aug 24 19:04:29 UTC 2006
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Troy Engel spake the following on 8/24/2006 10:09 AM:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
>>> That is a 4.3 kernel.  Joshua said that as of *4.4* the updated bits
>>> will be included in the kernel.  4.4 is a week or two off, I believe.
>>
>> because it's related to a security update. the -42.0.2  kernel does
>> indeed "Just Work" with the 9550 cards, so you should be able to
> 
> I decided to give it a go on my 9500S-12 machine. I was running -34.0.2
> with the downloaded driver; my machine hung on reboot to -42.0.2, but a
> hard poweroff/poweron cycle fixed that nonsense; it had hung booting the
> initial initrd load on the new kernel. (just some FYI for remote
> rebooters).
> 
> Drivers:
>   2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp: v2.26.02.001
>   2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp: v2.26.04.010
> 
> I was previously running v2.26.04.009 tarball, so a small upgrade came
> with the kernel. I just looked at 3ware.com, and this new driver version
> isn't downloadable yet. Hmmm.
> 
> -te
> 
Strange .. I have 2 systems with 9500s-4LP's and they rebooted fine.

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