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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