Re: 3Ware 9x00 controllers

> The driver disk did build after renaming the file but doesn't work. It still 
> complains about 'no appropriate driver'. Under water the installer claims to 
> be loading 3w-9xxx but in fact it is not. Funny enough the install screen did 
> show that installer tries to load 3w-xxxx even in expert mode and I didn't 
> ask it too.
>
> When I put the 3w-9xxx.bot driver on the disk and insmodded manually the 
> installer finds the array. (I will probably get in trouble later when the 
> installating is finished because the module may be missing but for now no 
> worries)
> I'm already happy I have a driver that will load at boot time :)

Trouble came as expected, the driver disk didn't do anything to install a 
driver :(



>
>> Good thing is that one is able to boot back to the previous version of
>> driver. The driver just flashes the old firmware in at boot.
>> 
>> I am actually doing some numbers now with this old firmware to be
>> compared to new one. I didn't do much 'logging' with this x86-64 box
>> having 3w-9xxx and the ia32-box isn't available for testing anymore
>> (there is almoust 800GB data already which i won't play with :).
>
> Great, if you have the results let's both raise an issue at 3ware about it, 
> hopefully they'll improve the driver.
>
> If the box boots after install I'll post some benchmarks of my array with 4 
> raptors.
>
> Cheers!
> Remco