RE: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 seri es cards

RE: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 seri es cards

[Adam Radford]

Who from 3ware told you it isn't compatible?  That's totally bogus.  
It's completely compatible.

3ware supports 6, 7, and 8000 series cards with a single driver in 
2.2, 2.4, and 2.5 trees.

If it isn't working for you, let me know.

-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej@codemonkey.org.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:26 AM
To: Nathan Neulinger
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; uetrecht@umr.edu
Subject: Re: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00
series cards


On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:10:54PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
 > According to 3Ware, the driver in the 2.4.x and (I assume) 2.5.x is no
 > longer compatible with the 6xxx series cards. 
 > I don't know what we'll do with this situation when we move to 2.6, cause
 > right now, it looks like we are completely screwed. The old driver 
 > obviously will not compile on 2.6 since the API's have changed. 

Any idea at which point the 2.5 driver stopped working ?
It may not be that much work to bring that version up to date as
a 3ware-old.c driver in a worse-case scenario.

This would be huge code duplication however, and would be much
better fixed by having the driver detect which card its running
on, and 'do the right thing' wrt which firmware it needs.

		Dave

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RE: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 seri es cards

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 10:41, Adam Radford wrote:

> If it isn't working for you, let me know.

Remember the crusty firmware problems I reported?  :-)

I've already sent out a patch in another offshoot of this thread.

	<b

RE: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 seri es cards

[Michael Knigge]

Hi all,

> 3ware supports 6, 7, and 8000 series cards with a single driver in
> 2.2, 2.4, and 2.5 trees.

<snip>
scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller 1.02.00.006
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: 3ware     Model: 3w-xxxx           Rev: 1.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
</snip>

would it be hard to add the 3ware model? "3w-xxxx"... hmmmm... 
currently I want to buy some more controllers and want to get the same 
as I currenty have - but I really can't remember which ones I own 
;-)))) 

And I don't want to reboot (hey, I would loose my uptime) ;)))


I now run these controllers on 6 of my 6 servers and all run without 
problems. Isn't it time to change the driver's status? Iirc it is 
still marked "experimental"....


Bye
  Michael