[rescue] 3ware raid

[Zachary Giles]

Interesting.. I never thought about flashing the bios on it. I'll be
sure to be cautious about that.

Unfortunately I do have 4 of these. They're 9500S-8 PCI-X133. I
figured they would work with OpenSolaris but don't seem to.. Anyone
have success or ideas ?
Or are you flashing them to try and get them to work?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.
<rescue at hawkmountain.net> wrote:
> Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>>>
>>> hopefully with the broad range of experience on the group someone will
>>> have seen
>>> this before and can save this card from becoming gold scrap....
>>
>> While I haven't encountered that exact issue, I've dealt with their cards.
>> Lots of them.
>>
>> Is it a PCI, PCI-X, PCI 64, etc? Which card? Is it in the right type of
>> slot?
>
> PCI-X 133
>>
>> Do you have another computer you can test the card in? To make sure it's
>> not some sort of 3ware+bios versus motherboard bios issue?
>
> actually if I removed the battery backup board, I was able to get the
system
> to post.
> I'll try re-adding it tomorrow night.
>>
>> I assume the writing of the flash worked all the way?
>>
> yes
>>
>> What if you disconnect all of the drives? Will it boot then?
>
> no
>
>> If so, downgrade firmware?
>>
> tough to do when the system wouldn't post to boot dos to run the
flasher....
>
>> Can you set the PC motherboard to boot from another drive first, and not
>> the SCSI/add in? If so, will that get you the ability to downgrade
firmware?
>>
> no... couldn't post into BIOS
>
> I started flashing, as Linux is not seeing this raid controller.  I tried
it
> on the same
> hardware with Windows 7 and it had worked fine.  looks like the 3w-9xxx
> driver
> in Linux is not working with this card.
>
> Going to work to get the array (which contained no data) back up with the
> card and
> battery backup module.  If I get in, then I'm going to build a new .ko
> module with
> source from LSI.
>
> Maybe that will get this card seen.
>
> I have to say I'm pretty shocked the drivers that come with CentOS 6.0
> doesn't see it.
>
> oddly, I don't see the card in an lspci output... I'd think even w/o the
> driver loaded
> shouldn't lspci see all cards ?
>
> Hope this isn't getting too off the rescue topic (trying to rescue and make
> use of
> the card, but it is not all that old :-) ).
>
> -- Curt
>
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