Installing 3Ware 9.2.1.1 firmware

[jaybeattie at gmail.com (Jay)]

We have drives that "Degrade"  when under medium load and tech support
from 3ware says
to install the lattes driver and firmware for the card to fix the
problem.  Running CentOS 4.1 2.6.9.11 Kernel.  After downloading the
source file and running make I receive scrolling error messages. Has
anyone installed this on Cent OS? Should the source be used or will
one of the prebuilt version work? Please advise.
Thanks!
-Jay