on 6-6-2008 10:48 AM Ruslan Sivak spake the following: > 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 That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware 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 I don't think their driver is better, as they regularly refresh their driver to the kernel maintainers. It is just that the newer cards take a bit of time to get to the disk images. Another thing you might be able to do is install to a drive that is not on the raid card and install their driver and migrate to the array. I just looked at their website, and they do have a driver disk image. If you don't have a floppy, you can usually do a network install and get the driver disk image also from the network. It is in the install docs I believe. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080606/c3cd5088/attachment-0005.sig>