[rescue] 3ware raid

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Zachary Giles wrote:
> 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?
>   

I was flashing them as the firmware was old, the card wasn't beeing seen
under Linux, and when I had tried a 4 drive raid 0 stripe and had a block
go bad... with one file getting corrupted.  I tested each drive 
individually,
no errors.... weird....

So I was just flashing to make it current, and hoping that Linux would then
see it w/o requiring a custom compiled kernel module.

-- Curt

> 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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