Re: 3Ware cards on RHEL 4.2

[Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 duke edu>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 at 3:43pm, Jack Neely wrote

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:06:33PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > Is the firmware on the card up to date?  If the firmware and driver are
> > too far out of sync, it can cause issues.
>
> I've updated the card to the latest BIOS version I could find on 3Ware's
> site which is version 7.7.1 last updated in July of '04.  The 9.3.0.3
> version did not include firmware for my 7500 series card.

Yep -- 7.7.1 is the latest firmware for the 7xxx/8xxx series.

> > I'm running centos-4 on several 7500 and 8000 (and 9550, for that matter)
> > based systems, so it *can* work.
>
> Can you find the driver/bios version numbers?

Model                   7500-8
Firmware                FE7X 1.05.00.068
Driver                  1.26.00.039
BIOS                    BE7X 1.08.00.048
Monitor                 ME7X 1.01.00.040
Memory Installed        2 MB
# of Ports              8
# of Units              1
# of Drives             8

One thing that may be worth trying is looking at the drives' SMART info. 
Maybe one is iffy enough to trip up this driver but not another...

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University