{"id":307,"date":"2019-05-04T05:58:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riedmann.it\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2019-05-04T05:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T04:58:52","slug":"3ware-amcc-9650se-and-newer-motherboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"3Ware\/AMCC 9650SE and newer motherboards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the past, the 3Ware\/AMCC RAID controllers were an good choice for Linux servers, and I have several of them workingin the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them failed recently and I tried to replace the machine, maintaining the RAID cards and the disks, but unfortunately the machine locked up at the &#8220;Loading Linux&#8221; message. With a Linux boot DVD the machine started, but showed a reset of the RAID controller and locked up afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to replace the new server (a Fujitsu TX1310 M3) with an older PC hardware worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also tried to upgrade the BIOS of the controller with the newest available version, but this failed too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you have the need to use this controller in newer machines: don&#8217;t loose your time &#8211; it will not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a hardware related issue &#8211; I have encountered it with Debian 9 and RIPLinux 11.7, but other people had it also with CentOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the following page for reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centos.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=52231\">https:\/\/www.centos.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=52231<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, the 3Ware\/AMCC RAID controllers were an good choice for Linux servers, and I have several of them workingin the field. One of them failed recently and I tried to replace the machine, maintaining the RAID cards and the disks, but unfortunately the machine locked up at the &#8220;Loading Linux&#8221; message. With a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-networking","category-windows-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}