Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:23:49PM +0800, Feizhou wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:24:57AM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: >>>> Makes one wonder if Linux is reasonably usable with 3ware. ;-) >>> I take by that emoticon that you are kidding, because everyone (and >>> their cats and dogs) is using 3Ware on Linux these days. I have (P)ATA, >>> SATA and SCSI 3Ware cards on Linux servers, without any issues whatsoever. >> Lucky you, if you had paired your older 3ware card with certain >> motherboards... > > Maybe. But I have made certain my BIOS (both mb and card) were always up > to date. > The problem had nothing to do with bios being up to date. That is why 3ware maintains a list of compatible motherboards. But I did leave out one important bit...the problem I have seen involved riser cards and was resolved after getting a particular riser card from a particular manufacturer.