From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 17:41:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38A916A419 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9070713C469 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:41:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AE5EC260A; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:41:25 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NbO1dJwFpReT; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:41:20 +0800 (CST) Received: from LI-Xins-MacBook.local (71.5.7.139.ptr.us.xo.net [71.5.7.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7EEEC2603; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:41:20 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type; b=d4uzspRbII7dL3rfQep4kN3jq6uK47gs/JU96O6rNtcf2SooRfLrb+PjtAOvJjGCC VqgsKTpxf1PGzyOa3pTZA== Message-ID: <4718EC36.7090401@delphij.net> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:41:10 -0700 From: LI Xin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ECEG / Daniel Duerr References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> In-Reply-To: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 OpenPGP: url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA69E31B76B7EFC0D7E886B9D" Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:41:25 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA69E31B76B7EFC0D7E886B9D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Redirected to -current@, I think this is more suitable for -current@ or -scsi@] It seems that RELENG_7 carries a newer version of driver, so I guess the problem should have been resolved. Part of changes were MFC'ed 5 months ago to RELENG_6, so you may also want to try a RELENG_6 snapshot from: http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/ In order to verify if it resolves your problem. Let us know if the problem still persists. ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Pardon me if I seem ignorant here but I am new to the list and > procedures of Freebsd... >=20 > I've recently purchased a bunch of new supermicro servers with 3ware > 9650 SATA RAID controllers in them. The freebsd 6.2 install is > painstaking because the driver source in Freebsd is not current with th= e > latest twa driver source from 3Ware. As a result, I have had to build > custom install CD's with the driver on them so that I can manually load= > them in the boot loader. It's a pain. I don't know if the same issue > exists in Freebsd 7 but some of us are not going to want to move our > production environments to Freebsd 7 for a while... >=20 > What is the procedure for getting the latest twa source patched into th= e > Freebsd 6.2 source tree? It's freely available from 3Ware here and > takes all of 45 seconds to patch in: > http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=3D15003 Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enigA69E31B76B7EFC0D7E886B9D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGOw2OfuToMruuMARCu76AJ9cWWC0oNbbeoTAdXqRGyZ7ZnyUPgCfVsXx Fyho8YMFR5l9mb7kxR0mJQc= =PMFy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA69E31B76B7EFC0D7E886B9D--