On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:39:30PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G > motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550 > SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is > not getting me anywhere yet. This system boots from a separate SATA disk > so the system is running, just without the 1.6TB raid array :( > > lspci is reporting: > > 0000:03:02.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc: Unknown device 1003 > > So, I think what needs to happen next is one or more of the following: > > 1) upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel > 2) compile the updated vendor source for 3w-9xxx module on either > 2.6.8-11 or 2.6.12 > 3) something simpler that I am missing. > > Ideally, I would like to use a stock kernel which was why I was thinking > of getting 2.6.12 from etch otherwise I will need to try and figure out > how to use the kernel-package system and long term maintenance becomes a > bigger problem. > > Thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
My experience is that amd64 systems run much better with 2.6.12 than 2.6.8 in general. So I personally think the upgrade is very worthwhile. Keeping the rest with stable is usually fine. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]