3ware 9000 series SATA RAID and FC3

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Frank wrote:

> After having trouble with other brands, I have settles on 3ware 8500 series 
> SATA raid controllers for use with Fedora Core 3, and have several systems 
> running with it.  They installed easily and run well.
>
> Last week I ordered one more and my supplier told me that this series has 
> been discontinued, replaced by the 9000 series.  I've googled to see if this 
> series is supported by the same, built-in driver that is currently working 
> for me on FC3 32 and 64 bit installations, but without any answers.
>
> Has anybody got a 3ware 9000 series SATA RAID card in use with FC3?  Does it 
> use the same 3ware driver built into the distribution?

the 9000 uses the 3w-9xxx driver instead of the 3w-xxxx driver. it works 
fine. I think the installer requires that you grab the 3ware 9000 fc3 
driver disk which is attached to this knowledge base article:

http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=11843

> Frank.
>
>

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