[TriLUG] Problems with Redhat 9/2.4.20-19.9

[Brian Weaver]

Dmitry,

The "official" answer I got from 3Ware was to pull down the drivers from 
their site and put them into my kernel. I noticed that the offical 
drivers from the 6400 serials was pretty old compared to what was in the 
current kernel. The last working version of the kernel that I had which 
did not cause problems with the 3Ware cards that I have was the 2.4.19 
series.

The 2.4.19 drivers were newer than what I downloaded from 3Ware. I 
basically took the official RedHat source for the kernel in /usr/src and 
made a copy to modify. I modified the new copy with the 2.4.19 drivers, 
did a make oldconfig and built. The kernel has been running like a champ 
ever since.

I haven't had the time to track down what changed between 2.4.19 and 
2.4.20 to see what the problem is. I kind of assumed that the driver was 
updated to fit their newest cards and it doesn't like the older cards.

-Weave


Dmitry wrote:
> Hi, Brian.
> 
> I saw the message that you've posted on Aug 03:
> 
>  >I was having issues with the latest RedHat kernels before I upgraded >the
>  >system in question from 8.0 to 9.0. Does anyone know of any existing
>  >problem with 3Ware 6000 and 7000 series cards on the latest RedHat 
>  >kernels?
> 
> Did you find an answer? I was using 3Ware 6410 for 2 years. No problems. 
> Updated to new SuSE with 2.4.22 kernel and RAID failed. Lost a lot of 
> data. Build new -- errors are popping up all over the place.
> 
> The situation is really bad -- server has to be up tomorrow with 150 GB 
> of data. 3Ware support is dragging feet.
> 
> Any help or pointer is greatly appretiated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dmitry.
> 
> 

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