CentOS - Nov 2008 - Getting a disk driver from 3ware installed.

We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that 
the disk driver may be at fault.

A disk driver  for the kernel we are running, 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i386, 
has been downloaded from 3ware's site. The only documentation included 
says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt
upon
startup, and not installation (I hope).

I have found some old threads about this for Centos 4, but it kinda 
drifted away and never really gave much info on what to do with the 
files that were downloaded.

Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with this downloaded zipped 
file to get it to use the driver, please?

Thanks

Steve Campbell

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:25, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>
wrote:
> The only documentation included says to
> run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt upon
startup, and
> not installation (I hope).
AFAIK, "linux dd" is used during installation. I'm not sure if you
can
use that again once the system is already installed.

They should have a script to install the modules to the right places
for you. In theory, I guess that could be done by hand, but it would
certainly not be simple enough for us to "guess" how to do it.

HTH,
Filipe

Steve Campbell wrote:
> We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that 
> the disk driver may be at fault.
Why do you suspect that ? what hardware ( hba and base machine )  are 
you running and what kernel version is in production on the machine ?

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Karanbir Singh
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Steve Campbell wrote:
> We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that 
> the disk driver may be at fault.
>
> A disk driver  for the kernel we are running, 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i386, 
> has been downloaded from 3ware's site. The only documentation included 
> says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot
prompt upon
> startup, and not installation (I hope).
>
> I have found some old threads about this for Centos 4, but it kinda 
> drifted away and never really gave much info on what to do with the 
> files that were downloaded.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with this downloaded zipped 
> file to get it to use the driver, please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Campbell
>
I'm going to sort of "close" this thread as it seems resolved. It
looks
like there was a corrupt root directory, DRBD was doing some strange 
things, and a few other things were bouncing around. Once the fsck was 
done, most of the problems went away (duh).

I didn't do the original install, and couldn't understand how an initial
installation occurred if the driver used didn't support the card, so 
yes, it appears "linux dd" is for fresh installs. Still don't know
how I
would create a driver disk, though.

Thanks for the replies and help offered.

Steve