Is this card supported in the current version? I checked and Linux sources (for 2.6.x kernels) are available on the manufacturers website...

 

Of course I'm not wanting to use the cards raid functions or anything, just as a lots of ports controller...

I'm bumping this because I'm interest in the answer as well.

I just tried this with the 3Ware 9500S. I had to set the drives as "Single Drive" using the latest firmware and it isn't reporting drive temperatures back, but it appears to mount the drives and is running parity right now. That said, it also doesn't seem to be fully happy with these error messages:

 

Mar 18 20:00:24 Tower emhttp: disk_temperature: ioctl (smart_enable): Invalid argument

Mar 18 20:00:55 Tower kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi4: ERROR: (0x03:0x0101): Invalid command opcode:opcode=0x85.

Mar 18 20:02:24 Tower last message repeated 10 times

 

I don't know if this is being caused by the fact that I have 3 drives in a Raid 5 Array that is running Windows and I just installed the 3 "extra" drives on the controller to try unRAID on.

 

The temp warnings make sense since I'm not getting any drive temperatures back, but the 3w-9xxx error I'm not sure about.

 

I'm actually running unRAID 4.5.3 for this test.

I think the opcode of 0x85 relates to a request to pass the command through to the actual drive, likely to check on the hard drive temps or dealing with drive spinup/spindown. [ http://www.t10.org/lists/op-num.htm ]

 

Im hijacking this thread because I got the same error on my 3ware card which I posted an inquiry about as well.  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6225.0

 

Any resolution on this?  I got the same results as abeta - where everything seems to be working, with the exception of the error msg.  I currently have 3 drives on the card, and 1 of the drives is reporting all info back fine, but the other two dont have temps or model/serials numbers. 

 

Is this one of those situations where the firmware needs to be added to one of the upcoming releases, if possible? 

any comment on this card to be used in the Unraid server? I've a 3ware 9500s 8 port SATA lying around and would want to use it for the Unraid Server, what's the error message would cause?

 

Would the temp of the HDD reported correctly? Any functions can't be used in Unraid for this 3ware card?

 

Thanks

I am using 2 of the 9500s cards also.  I have no temp readings and am also getting the same ERROR: (0x03:0x0101): Invalid command opcode:opcode=0x85.

 

Joe

Since there was no response to this thread I thought I would do some experimenting and post the results for others.  My advice would be NOT to use the 3ware 9500s cards with unRaid.  After it took me 100hours to pre-clear a 2TB drive I took the same drive to another system with unRaid loaded and it took way less than a day.  I now started moving all my drives off of my 3Ware cards to the motherboard and I get temperature and Model/Serial info.  My cache drive went from under 12MB/s up to 60-7-MB/s.  I would have to say that the unRaid / Linux drivers for 3Ware pretty much suck.  Please remember if you had connected a drive to a 3Ware card you much unlock it with -r to hook it another controller.

Joe