[Centos] How to get 3Ware 9500S controller card working in CentOS 3.1?

[Denis Pilon]

Looking at the 3ware driver disk here is the content


zcat modules.cgz | cpio -ivd
2.4.21-4.EL/3w-9xxx.o
2.4.21-4.ELBOOT/3w-9xxx.o
2.4.21-4.ELhugemem/3w-9xxx.o
2.4.21-4.ELsmp/3w-9xxx.o
notice... no i386 directory
Plus...the only i386 kernel is the BOOT kernel...please build the 
correct driver for i686 or athlon...depending on your system

modinfo
modules.cgz
modules.dep
pcitable
rhdd-6.1
src/
src/2.4/
src/2.4/3w-9xxx.tgz

Try using the the driver disk from 3ware replacing the modules.cgz.


DP

Sean Staats wrote:

>My goal is to be able to install to the drive array on the 3Ware
>controller card.  3Ware does provide a RH WS 3 driver that I've tried to
>use; however, the RH Enterprise 3 WS driver doesn't work since that
>kernel is older than the CentOS-3.1 install kernel.
>
>I'm trying to create a centOS-3.1 installation driver disk for the 3ware
>9500S card; however, I'm not having much luck.  I've compiled the
>drivers on a stock centOS 3.1 install and created a modules.cgz file
>(using find . -depth | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -c > ../modules.cgz) with
>the newly-compiled driver modules.  Here are the contents of the
>modules.cgz file I created:
>2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0BOOT/i386/3w-9xxx.o
>2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0hugemem/i386/3w-9xxx.o
>2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0/i386/3w-9xxx.o
>2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0smp/i386/3w-9xxx.o
>
>I've also tried the above without the 'i386' subdirectory.
>
>The stock install kernel version is 2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0.  That IS what I
>should use for the modules directory name right?
>I then created a driver disk with the following files:
>modinfo
>modules.cgz
>modules.dep
>pcitable
>rhdd-6.1
>src
>
>When I boot the install CD, I type: "linux dd".  I then tell the
>installer that the drivers are on fd0.  The installer reads the disk,
>but doesn't find the driver and gives me this message:
>"No devices of the appropriate type were found on this driver disk. 
>Would you like to manually select the driver, continue anyway, or load
>another driver disk?"
>
>Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?  Am I going about this the hard
>way?
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>-Sean
>
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