From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 02:14:56 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 3D50416A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:14:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hadar.amcc.com (hadar.amcc.com [192.195.69.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643AA43D46 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vkashyap@amcc.com) Received: from mailhost02.amcc.com ([192.195.69.49]) by hadar.amcc.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id I4F7KY00.0JS for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:14:58 -0700 Received: (from vkashyap-pc [10.66.6.61]) by mailhost02.amcc.com (SMSSMTP 4.0.0.59) with SMTP id M2004092119153024076 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:15:30 -0700 From: "Vinod Kashyap" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:14:50 -0700 X-Sent-Folder-Path: Sent Items X-Mailer: Oracle Connector for Outlook 9.0.4 51114 (9.0.6627) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Subject: RE: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 02:14:56 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Albert Chin > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:45 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers > = > = > 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. > = The driver will not flash firmware if the firmware image it is bundled with, is older than the firmware on the controller. Of course, you can always disable flashing by not defining TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE.