Hi,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:25, Steve Campbell campbell@cnpapers.com wrote:

The only documentation included says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt upon startup, and not installation (I hope).

AFAIK, "linux dd" is used during installation. I'm not sure if you can use that again once the system is already installed.

They should have a script to install the modules to the right places for you. In theory, I guess that could be done by hand, but it would certainly not be simple enough for us to "guess" how to do it.

HTH, Filipe

Steve Campbell wrote:

We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that the disk driver may be at fault.

A disk driver for the kernel we are running, 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i386, has been downloaded from 3ware's site. The only documentation included says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt upon startup, and not installation (I hope).

I have found some old threads about this for Centos 4, but it kinda drifted away and never really gave much info on what to do with the files that were downloaded.

Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with this downloaded zipped file to get it to use the driver, please?

Thanks

Steve Campbell

I'm going to sort of "close" this thread as it seems resolved. It looks like there was a corrupt root directory, DRBD was doing some strange things, and a few other things were bouncing around. Once the fsck was done, most of the problems went away (duh).

I didn't do the original install, and couldn't understand how an initial installation occurred if the driver used didn't support the card, so yes, it appears "linux dd" is for fresh installs. Still don't know how I would create a driver disk, though.

Thanks for the replies and help offered.

Steve