On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:39 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Hi Again, > > 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:
You can get lspci to show the full and correct details if you run update-pciids. > 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. We recently bought a system with a 3ware 9550 controller and found 2.6.12 was not recent enough. We got it working with 2.6.15-rc6 in the end, and now that 2.6.15 is released we will upgrade it to a more stable release - fortunately the system using this machine is still under development. So I would heartily recommend coming to grips with kernel-package and building your own (hopefully simpler) kernel. When building with make-kpkg we generally don't use the .config from a Debian build as we can make it more hardware specific and so do not need the complexity of an initrd image for the build. I find it's better to spend 20 minutes going through all the options in make menuconfig and specifying appropriate settings for your hardware. Of course I have been doing that for more than ten years now, so I guess I'm not daunted by it... :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler -- Einstein -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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