[CentOS] 3Ware 9690SA
Ruslan Sivak
russ at vshift.com
Fri Jun 6 17:48:18 UTC 2008
Victor Padro wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com
> <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote:
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> Jeff wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com
> <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote:
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> Tim Verhoeven wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak
> <russ at vshift.com <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote:
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>
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> I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE
> controller. Due to some
> issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I
> replaced it with a
> 9690SA.
> Now the system won't boot (although interestingly
> enough, it find the
> boot
> menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in
> the bootup phase.
>
> I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't
> find the raid array.
> 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not
> too sure how to get
> them
> on my system?
>
>
>
> That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware
> driver. I'm
> pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you
> can wait a bit
> longer...
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> For production use, I can, but currently we are testing
> these servers, and I
> would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to
> load a driver on
> an already running system, or load it for anaconda?
> Something similar to F6
> in windows?
>
>
>
> Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.
>
> http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
>
> And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5.
>
>
>
> Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by
> using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a
> disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but
> anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not
> being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk.
>
> I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I
> need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work?
> Russ
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> Perhaps you can download RHEL 5.2 from Red Hat Network, if you are a
> customer there will be no problem but if you're not, maybe you can
> sign out for 30 day trial and then download the ISOs, burn it and test
> your box and share your results, it will be enough time for CentOS 5.2
> to be available, so then you can be sure to run a production system.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/wapps/sso/rhn/login.html?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Frhn.redhat.com%2Frhn%2Fsoftware%2Fchannel%2Fdownloads%2FDownload.do%3Fcid=6949
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> I got almost the same issue with an Asus mainboard...that's my 2 cents.
>
>
> Cya.
>
> Victor.
It's probably a good idea for me to know how to do this from scratch.
Plus I want to see if there's a difference in performance between the
stock driver and the 3ware driver.
I'm going to try giving 3ware a call to see how to install this. Their
support is usually excellent.
Russ
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