3ware 9500

[Peter Maas]

Dear Sirs:

3ware had released new drivers for there 9500S series ide raid cards under
the GNU GPL, the current kernel drivers support up to the 8500 Series. What
is necessary to have to have these drivers added to the redhat
kernel(hopefully linus's kernel also)? I have the source that is shipped
with the card if needed.

Thank You
Peter Maas
[e-mail]

[Rex Dieter]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Peter Maas wrote:
> 3ware had released new drivers for there 9500S series ide raid cards under
> the GNU GPL, the current kernel drivers support up to the 8500 Series. What
> is necessary to have to have these drivers added to the redhat
> kernel(hopefully linus's kernel also)? I have the source that is shipped
> with the card if needed.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

-- Rex

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> > > > > "PM" == Peter Maas  writes:

PM> What is necessary to have to have these drivers added to the
PM> redhat kernel(hopefully linus's kernel also)?

They were accepted into the official kernel as of 2.6.7-rc1, so they
will automatically make it into later Red Hat-built kernels.

- J<

[Peter Maas]

I have just looked at the kernel patched to 2.6.7-rc1-bk5 and it does not
appear that is the case, though I have not compiled and tested to be
absolutely sure, the device ids for the 9500's.

(#define TW_DEVICE_ID_9000 (0x1002) /* 9000 series controller */)

have not been added to 3w-xxxx header files in the main-line kernel.

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" 
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora Core"

Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: 3ware 9500
> > > > > > "PM" == Peter Maas  writes:
>
> PM> What is necessary to have to have these drivers added to the
> PM> redhat kernel(hopefully linus's kernel also)?
>
> They were accepted into the official kernel as of 2.6.7-rc1, so they
> will automatically make it into later Red Hat-built kernels.
> J<
>
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[Samuel Flory]

Peter Maas wrote:
> I have just looked at the kernel patched to 2.6.7-rc1-bk5 and it does not
> appear that is the case, though I have not compiled and tested to be
> absolutely sure, the device ids for the 9500's.
>
> (#define TW_DEVICE_ID_9000 (0x1002) /* 9000 series controller */)
>
> have not been added to 3w-xxxx header files in the main-line kernel.

It uses a new driver 3w-9xx.  Note I'm not sure if the driver is in 
2.6 yet.

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> > > > > "PM" == Peter Maas  writes:

PM> I have just looked at the kernel patched to 2.6.7-rc1-bk5 and it
PM> does not appear that is the case, though I have not compiled and
PM> tested to be absolutely sure, the device ids for the 9500's.

Well, I recall that the new driver (3w-9xxx) made it into
2.6.6-mm(something) and then was listed in the 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 changelog
as being merged into mainline.  Currently rc1-mm1 has additional 3ware
patches in it:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc1/2.6.7-rc1-mm1/broken-out/3ware-9000-sata-raid-1.patch

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc1/2.6.7-rc1-mm1/broken-out/3ware-9000-sata-raid-2.patch

I think these will percolate into the main tree with haste.  Note that
this is a new driver; you can't look in the old driver and find info
for these cards.

- J<

[Peter Maas]

Just wanted to say that I compiled 2.6.7-rc2-mm1 and that the 9000 series
3ware drivers are working great on my 9500S-12 running in raid 5 mode.

Thanks

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" 
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora Core"

Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: 3ware 9500
> > > > > > "PM" == Peter Maas  writes:
>
> PM> I have just looked at the kernel patched to 2.6.7-rc1-bk5 and it
> PM> does not appear that is the case, though I have not compiled and
> PM> tested to be absolutely sure, the device ids for the 9500's.
>
> Well, I recall that the new driver (3w-9xxx) made it into
> 2.6.6-mm(something) and then was listed in the 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 changelog
> as being merged into mainline.  Currently rc1-mm1 has additional 3ware
> patches in it:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc1/2.6.7-rc1-mm1/broken-out/3ware-9000-sata-raid-1.patch
>

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc1/2.6.7-rc1-mm1/broken-out/3ware-9000-sata-raid-2.patch
> I think these will percolate into the main tree with haste.  Note that
> this is a new driver; you can't look in the old driver and find info
> for these cards.
> J<
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[Alan Cox]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:22:16PM -0500, Peter Maas wrote:
> 3ware had released new drivers for there 9500S series ide raid cards under
> the GNU GPL, the current kernel drivers support up to the 8500 Series. What
> is necessary to have to have these drivers added to the redhat
> kernel(hopefully linus's kernel also)? I have the source that is shipped
> with the card if needed.

3ware should be submitting them to Andrew Morton and/or linux-scsi list. I'm
suprised they haven't already if they are ready for them to be merged as they
are normally pretty on the ball.

You might want to ask them and Andrew what the status is