Hi All,
I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box.
I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX)
How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card.
Best, -Jason
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Slack-Moehrle mailinglists@mailnewsrss.com wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box.
I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX)
How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card.
The driver should have come with an installer script, that copies the module to the correct directory your runtime kernel is using for modules. If the driver download is nothing but a .ko file, do you know what kernel it was complied for? try sticking it in /lib/modules/$YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION/extra and then do a depmod -a to update the modules list, and lastly a modprobe to load your module.
Gordon
On 10/04/2010 22:59, Slack-Moehrle wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box.
FYI http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546
D
Slack-Moehrle wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box.
I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX)
How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card.
Have you tried it without installing the vendor driver? That board should be old enough to be supported natively. I use 9550SX boards without any problems.
Hi Benjamin,
I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box.
I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX)
Have you tried it without installing the vendor driver? That board should be old enough to be supported natively. I use 9550SX boards without any problems.
Can you tell me the process you take? I dont see drives available, I believe they are being exported to the OS though. I took my 8x1.5tb drives, went into the card setup and set each one as a single drive and when the machine boots, the card says they are exported.
What can I try to ensure that CentOS is seeing them?
-Jason
From: Slack-Moehrle mailinglists@mailnewsrss.com
Can you tell me the process you take? I dont see drives available, I believe they are being exported to the OS though. I took my 8x1.5tb drives, went into the card setup and set each one as a single drive and when the machine boots, the card says they are exported.
Look maybe at SCSI_3W_9XXX In '/usr/src/kernels/.../drivers/scsi/Kconfig' But they mention a '3w-9xxx.c' that is not there...
JD
On 4/12/2010 12:04 PM, John Doe wrote:
From: Slack-Moehrle mailinglists@mailnewsrss.com
Can you tell me the process you take? I dont see drives available, I believe they are being exported to the OS though. I took my 8x1.5tb drives, went into the card setup and set each one as a single drive and when the machine boots, the card says they are exported.
Look maybe at SCSI_3W_9XXX In '/usr/src/kernels/.../drivers/scsi/Kconfig' But they mention a '3w-9xxx.c' that is not there...
JD
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Another user already suggested the use of fdisk and this is a continuation of that.
Issuing the command 'fdisk -l' without specifying a drive will print the partition table of ALL detected drives attached to a system.
Also, having used 3ware cards extensively with Centos, the module for you card is included with 5.4. No need to use the 3ware module from their website.
Slack-Moehrle wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
Have you tried it without installing the vendor driver? That board should be old enough to be supported natively. I use 9550SX boards without any problems.
Can you tell me the process you take? I dont see drives available, I believe they are being exported to the OS though. I took my 8x1.5tb drives, went into the card setup and set each one as a single drive and when the machine boots, the card says they are exported.
What can I try to ensure that CentOS is seeing them?
If you are using the current CentOS (make sure that you are using 5.4 with the current kernel - it probably is not enough to be using bare un-updated 5.0 or some such old version) just type
fdisk -l /dev/sda
which should give you something similar to this:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
changing '/dev/sda' to sdb through sdh or whatever is appropriate to your system to check each exported drive.
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