3ware/AMCC 8006-2 and Ubuntu Dapper Drake LTS 6.06
Lately I installed an Ubuntu Dapper LTS 6.06 server with a 3ware 8006-2 sata raid controller. I wanted to use the CLI and the 3DMD raidcontroller software. So I downloaded the software on the website, installed it, but it just refused to work, complaining about wrong drivers. I suppose the drivers into kernel 2.6.15.x are good enough, in fact they are _to_ good/new. So I started to find a solution. I found one by downloading the newest CLI version 9.4.1.
The 3DMD tool wouldn’t work either, so I tried to install the 3DM2 tool. It failed because the installer didn’t generate a .pem file. So I searched some repositories with 3DM2 binaries and found a debian based package.
wget http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/pool/restricted/3/3ware-3dm2-binary-i386/3ware-3dm2-binary_9.3.0.4-1duo1_i386.deb
I just had do install it with dpkg and it works perfectly now.
on July 25th, 2007 at 23:49
Random unrelated 8006-2 question: Have you had any luck/issues running this card with drives larger than 500GB? Are you aware of anyone else who has, one way or another?
Thanks
on September 16th, 2007 at 10:21
I’m sorry, those drives are smaller than 500GB. Checkout the 3ware site to solve those problems and check the new firmware/drivers.