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Title: Driver for 3ware RAID controller 9000 series
Post by: tonie on October 23, 2004, 03:25:14 PM

For those who need a driver for the 3ware RAID controller 9000 series and SME v6.x, you can download it here (http://www.soneco.nl/downloads/sme/drivers/3ware/3w-9xxx.o)
The standard driver that's build in SME is not working on the 9000 series from 3ware.

Have fun...
Tonie

Title: Driver for 3ware RAID controller 9000 series
Post by: jmvelez on October 24, 2004, 03:55:11 AM

Thanks for the driver. how do you install it (left shift accept dd and the driver in the floppy).  The 9000 is 20% faster in writes than the 8000 and the price is similar.  Read are much faster according to 3ware.  I had a 8000 with 4 250GB in a Hot-Swap cage but I sold the controller and the drives.  I am planning to buy the 9000 with 4 400GB drives to build back the demo server.

Title: Driver for 3ware RAID controller 9000 series
Post by: tonie on October 27, 2004, 07:13:58 PM

Sorry, don't now how to install the driver to boot from the raid array, i'm using the controller to get a lot of space and mounted the extra space to a ibay.
Just copy the driver to /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.7/kernel/drivers/scsi and from the console do a insmod 3w9xxx and mount the extra drive. There are a lot of how-to's to do that.
Just search the forums for the information. It's there. :-))

Tonie