Re: Re: 3Ware 9690SA

Ruslan Sivak <russ@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:20:41 -0400

Scott Silva wrote:
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@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                                          That controller requires a 
newer version of the 3ware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
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.

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The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen 
kernels according to the release notes.  The ones to be used for Xen 
kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257

That only has a zip file, not an image file.

Russ

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