At long last, we've finally got a RAID card for the office file server!
It's a lovely 3ware 9000 series with 8 SATA ports, and looks very lovely indeed. But I can't get it working for the life of me.
I use two 3ware 8000's at home (one under Debian, one under Gentoo), and have had zero problems with them. The old boot floppies netinst image worked fine, allowing me to install straight onto the RAID array. But the 9000 card in the office server doesn't seem to want to be recognised; I've tried the old Debian boot floppies (via the LordSutch netinst image), the RC1 of the new Debian installer (which is one of the best installers I've ever seen, I imagine something along the line of mad props are due) and the x86 Gentoo 2004.2 LiveCD. None of them seem to be able to support the 3ware out of the box; most promising was the new installer which detected the 3ware fine, but the modprobe failed (both automatic and manual modprobing 3w-xxxx from the shell) under both expert24 and expert26. I was under the impression that the 3ware drivers for the 9000's had been out for a while, so I imagined they'd have made their way into the kernels by now.
The card is in the machine at the moment (running 2.4.19 on woody), and lspci shows it up as an unknown device:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700c (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 700d
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-765 [Viper] ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-765 [Viper] IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-765 [Viper] ACPI (rev 01)
00:07.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-765 [Viper] USB (rev 07)
00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc: Unknown device 1002
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 43)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 6c)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP (rev 27)
The mobo is a Tyan S2460 with two 2000 MP's and 512MB of ECC, and has proved solid as a rock. The 3ware is sitting in the third PCI-X (64bit, 33MHz) slot, and isn't (meant to be) sharing any IRQ's AFAICT (PCI-X is separate from the PCI bus).
Does anyone else have experience installing onto a 3ware 9000? Am I going to have to roll my own install, or create my own 3w-[9|x]xxx module to load at boot? Or is my card just b0rked?
Many thanks to anyone who can help me on this.
Cheers!
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