Victor Padro wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com > <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote: > > Jeff wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com > <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote: > > > Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak > <russ at vshift.com <mailto: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 That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware 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. > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > 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 > > 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