Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:44:42 -0500 From: Albert Chin <freebsd-stable@mlists.thewrittenword.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers Message-ID: <20040922014442.GA97251@mail1.thewrittenword.com> In-Reply-To: <415058FA.1090709@mintel.com> References: <20040921155930.GF72513@mail1.thewrittenword.com> <415058FA.1090709@mintel.com>
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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)
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