On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote: > Tim Verhoeven wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> 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 That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver.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. -- Jeff