Chapter 10. Maintaining Your Controller
200 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
If you have a 2.6 kernel without sysfs, type the following command:
dmesg | grep 3w
(dmesg can also be used with earlier kernel versions.)
Under Windows, you can follow the first 8 steps under “Updating the 3ware
Driver Under Windows XP” on page 207.
You can also use the 3ware Command Line Interface to check the version. For
more information, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI
Guide.
Updating the Driver and Firmware
You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at
www.3ware.com.
Note: Information in this section applies to updating drivers and
firmware for the 9550SX and 9590SE controllers. The 3ware
website also allows you to download drivers for other 3ware
controller models and associated release notes.
For Windows, the firmware and driver can be installed from the same
download. When you run the utility, you can choose to update both the driver
and the firmware, or only the driver.
For Linux and FreeBSD, updating the driver and updating the firmware are
done separately. You can download them individually from the website.
Note: For Linux, do not use the driver from the external Linux
distribution as it is older than the currently supported driver.
Instead, use the driver from the 3ware CD or from the 3ware web
site.
To download the driver or firmware
1 On the 3ware website (www.3ware.com), navigate to Service and
Support > Software Downloads.
2 Select the product and release desired.
3 Select Driver or Firmware (as appropriate) as the item to download.
4 Select the Operating System you are using.
5Click Next.
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