[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

[Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)]

> From: Bentley, Dain [mailto:DBentley at nas.edu]
> 
> I have perused the lists and saw this might be support with OpenSolaris.  It's
> not listed on the HCL on the Openindiana wiki but like I said, some
> OpenSolaris threads talk about this controller being supported:
> http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-07/msg00022.html
> 
> Has anyone used these controllers and had any luck or no luck as it were?

Well, I have 2 systems with 9650SE cards in them ...  Not the same as yours, but pretty close...  I spent a rather long time figuring out how to make it work, because 3Ware was originally planning to support it on opensolaris, but they basically tanked it.  They wrote the driver, but never got the installer quite working before pulling the plug.  I found a forum somewhere, where some guy posted, "I'm one of the developers on that driver, and blah blah, we never got it working, but you can use it if you're willing to manually do the following..."  And those instructions worked.

The "add_drv" command was the special sauce that the developer posted, without which, you could never hope to get the tw driver to work.  Unfortunately, it is device-specific.

I've posted here about it before, just in case anybody would ever care.  Don't know if this is at all relevant to you.
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