In regard of the e-mail sent on Jul/16/04 about the 3Ware 9500S.
Has anyone experienced/solved this issue ?? I'm having a similar problem, I
already have the system installed on a separate disk, now I want to make the
filesystem on the RAID partition (using 3Ware 9500S-8).
First I had the problem that the card will keep resetting after continous
timeouts whenever I tried loading the module (compiled from source, in
up-mode, driver v.9.2 from 3Ware's website). The solution to this was to
disable APIC on the motherboard (or boot linux without APIC support).
So, now the module loads ok (I've tried SMP and ENT versions, I'm using
kernel 2.4.21-15.0.4-ELsmp). But the timeout and reset problem start
happening again when I try to create the filesystem on the RAID partition. I
can cancel the mkfs operation, but then I get a kernel panic if I try to
unload the module (rmmod 3w-9xxx), just like the problem that the previous
poster had.
Any ideas or input would be appreciated.
David
