[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?
>
>                            
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>                 That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware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
>
>
>                      
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>             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?
>                
>
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>         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
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>         And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5.
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>          
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>     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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