Chris Mauritz wrote: > I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the > firmware for the 9500S than I have on several machines. All of mine > are running: > > 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, > Ports: 8. > > and the latest rev appears to be 3.08. I'm wondering if there is any > compelling reason to upgrade or just let these sleeping dogs lie. :) > Any sage (or other) advice would be much appreciated. Since nobody else responded... :) I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines. EXT3 performance seems to have improved noticeably on the RAID 0 devices I tested so it might be worth the update. Best,