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[Joe Landman <landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks:

  I wanted to let you know that the 3ware drivers in 9.0 are somewhat
out of date.  Also, under 9.0 AMD, there is a simple bug in sd.c with
regards to signed vs unsigned ints, which limits the size of the SCSI
disk system to under 1 TB (1 TB - 1 byte will work, but 1 TB will
overflow).  See

https://www.3ware.com/kbadmin/attachments/sd.c.patch

for the patch to sd.c, and look at the knowledgebase article "Q10753 -
Software Configuration: Does 3ware have support for 64-bit Linux
operating systems?" on  http://www.3ware.com/KB/kb.asp.  They mention 

'There is a bug with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels where SCSI disk targets
greater than 1 Terabyte in capacity cannot be accessed beyond one
Terabyte (1 TByte). The resultant output for the error is:

"I/O error: device 08:00 sector X" '

Please include the latest 3ware drivers and the this patch for 9.0 AMD64
kernels if possible.  Thanks!

Joe

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Joe Landman <landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>