Hi Connie;

   The default 3ware driver in SL 4.2 does not work.  3ware states that
you need to user 9.3 or newer of the 9xxx software for this card.  I'll
try and get a driver disk done for your contrib area.  We've decided to
go with installing Redhat ES on this machine as we had a spare
subscription available.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Connie Sieh [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:36 AM
To: Hoffmann, Tony
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Problems installing SL4.2 on 3ware 9550sx raid card


On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Hoffmann, Tony wrote:

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> I recently ran into problems trying to SL 4.2 onto a machine with a 3=
> ware 9550sx using
> their latest driver disk which supports RHEL 4.2.  The driver disk do=
> es work properly

Do the default 3ware drivers that are included in SL 4.2 not work with the 
3ware 9550sx  ?

 
> with RHEL 4.2ES install disks.  It turns out that Redhat uses 2.6.9-2=
> 2.EL as the boot
> kernel on their 4.2 ISOs.  Unfortunately, SL ISOs are built with 2.6.=
> 9-22.0.1.EL.  I guess
> I have to build my own driver disk to do the install since 3ware does=
>  supply source code.
> This could be a problem for others if a hardware vendor only supplies=
>  binary install disks.

If you build this we can include it as part of the contrib area.

-Connie Sieh
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