Victor Padro wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:russ@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Jeff wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:russ@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak
<russ@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:russ@xxxxxxxxxx>> 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That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware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
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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
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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