Re: 3ware driver (3w-xxxx) in 2.6.10: procfs entry

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jan 19, 2005, at 21:23, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > > > > "PD" == Peter Daum <gator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> You should report the problems you find to them.  They do indicate (in
> the knowledge base on their web site) that you're going to need the
> in-engineering files to run on the latest kernels.  It's only recently
> that the newer tools acquired the ability to control older
> controllers.
>
> According to a recent post from a 3ware employee on linux-ide-arrays,
> a proper release is expected in February.  Obviously the best solution
> is that they just give us the source to these tools so that we can fix
> them ourselves.  Knowing that isn't going to happen I'm happy they're
> at least giving us something while they catch up with the speed of
> kernel progress.
>
> I can verify the fact that info is busted when the controller is
> verifying the array; I'll gather some more info and pass this on to
> 3ware.

We have some 3ware 7000 ATA-RAID controllers that I've tested with  
various
versions of the tools trying to get them to work:
+---------------+--------------- 
+--------------------------------------------+
| Kernel        | CLI Utility   | Functionality/Limitations              
     |
+---------------+--------------- 
+--------------------------------------------+
|               | 7000 - Stable | Works great, everything OK (Of course  
:-D) |
| Debian 2.4.28 |               |                                        
     |
|               | 7000 - In-Eng | [N/A] No such tool exists!             
     |
+---------------+--------------- 
+--------------------------------------------+
|               | 7000 - Stable | Works ok, except some operations fail  
with |
|               |               | unusual errors, and the info stuff  
doesn't |
|               |               | really work properly                   
     |
|               |               |                                        
     |
|               | 7000 - In-Eng | [N/A] No such tool exists!             
     |
|               |               |                                        
     |
|               | 9000 - Stable | Works great, everything OK, although  
some  |
|               |               | operations have status errors, though  
they |
|               |               | still function as expected.  This one  
has  |
| Debian 2.6.8  |               | an interesting new interface that I  
like.  |
|               |               |                                        
     |
|               | 9000 - In-Eng | This one lacks the new interface that  
is   |
|               |               | present in the tested release, which  
is    |
|               |               | kind of weird, given that it is a  
much     |
|               |               | newer version.  It also appears to  
work    |
|               |               | great on the 3ware 7000 card, but  
without  |
|               |               | the weird errors that plagued the  
stable   |
|               |               | tool.  This looks promising, but I  
kinda   |
|               |               | liked the interface of the 9000 tool.  
     |
+---------------+--------------- 
+--------------------------------------------+

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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