3ware 7xxx/8xxx-series RAID controller drivers (suspended)

[vilpostus]

I've tried to compile new kext from scratch (using Xcode). This kext loads with no errors. Unfortunately the RAID doesn't shows up. Neither in the diskutil, nor in the profiler. The only good thing about it is some changes in the profiler's PCI Cards section. The 3Ware 7xxx/8xxx-series PATA/SATA-RAID Controller now has "Driver Installed: Yes".

Luckily system is as stable as it was. I mean the new driver does nothing good or bad Probably some farther development needed. Unfortunately I have no idea what to do next.

If anybody is interested please PM.

Any comments are welcome!

[vilpostus]

After a long and intensive battle withe Xcode, I've managed to compile a working kext for the 3ware Escalade 8006-2LP PATA/SATA-RAID controller. Compiled from a source code. All the thanks goes to the source code author. I only made some minor adaptations to make sure the code will compile in Xcode.

I provide no warranties of any kind, use this at your own risk.

Tested to work on OS X 10.5.8, may probably work on OS X 10.4.x. The kext may work with all 5/6/7/8 series 3ware controllers (with proper vendor/device ID inserted; 5/6/7 controllers are not tested, because I don't have any). 9xxx series controllers are supported by the official 3ware driver (see Official 3ware support site ).

 

REVISION NOTE:

The driver will only work in 10.5.8 Leopard. It is very unstable and may provoke random kernel panics. It must be revisited by a professional programmer and debugged properly. Please PM if you are interested. I can no longer make any posts here, so PM is the only means to communicate...