From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 01:44:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64E716A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:44:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.thewrittenword.com (mail1.thewrittenword.com [67.95.107.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D1943D41 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:44:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@mlists.thewrittenword.com) Received: by mail1.thewrittenword.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C83E4121; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:44:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:44:42 -0500 From: Albert Chin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040922014442.GA97251@mail1.thewrittenword.com> References: <20040921155930.GF72513@mail1.thewrittenword.com> <415058FA.1090709@mintel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <415058FA.1090709@mintel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:44:43 -0000 On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:38:18PM +0100, Jason Thomson wrote: > A few caveats: > > 1. The firmware is included in the driver. The driver will update the > card's firmware if the driver has more recent firmware than the card. > The firmware that came with the 4-STABLE driver at the beginning of > August was quite old; we had to kldload a more recent driver from the > 3ware website in order to complete the install. I went through the software download procedure on their web site and was able to download 9.0.2-Upgrade.zip. So is it a bad idea to use an older driver with the firmware from this package? It seems you can -UTWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE and the driver won't flash the firmware on you. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)