From: Rasmus Plewe (rplewe_at_suse.de)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 10:49:56 CEST
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:49:56 +0200 From: Rasmus Plewe <rplewe@suse.de> Message-ID: <20070711084955.GA12676@coredump.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Is there a 3ware 9650 driver in SLES10 x86-64 SP1?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:20:55PM -0600, Michael Folsom wrote:
> Just got a small sata raid in with 8 drives connected to a 3ware
> 9650SE controller on a Tyan h2000M (S3992) motherboard - system has 4
> gb or ram and 2 dual core opterons. (nice little box!)
>
> Anyway, trouble is that the 64 bit versions of SLES10 SP1 does not
> recognize the controller. From 3ware's web site it says ----
>
> "Linux 2.6.19 kernel or greater includes a driver for the 9650SE
> and 7000/8000/9500S/9550SX/9590SE series controllers"
>
> Now I had understood that one of the good things that came with SP1
> was a back-port of the sata and scsi stuff from the 2.6.20 kernel into
> the SLES10 kernel. My question is - did they also include the
> drivers?
>
> Basically what happens is when I boot the system from the SP1 dvd the
> install process starts up and announces that it can't find any hard
> drives even though a +/- 2TB raid 5 exists. (I know it works because
> the company that built it put SLES10 x86-64 on it and it boots and
> runs fine! However, I hate the partitions they made!)
>
> Now the card did come with a driver disk that supports SLES10 x86-64
> but importing kernel mods during an install of Suse is not fun
> (frankly it usually doesn't work for me) and it sets you up for
> problems if some well meaning soul ever does a upgrade of the system.
> Also, I'm not sure if that module will even work with SP1 - which
> could make patching wonderful!
>
> Does anybody have any clue how I can find out if the driver for the
> 9650SE card is included in SP1?
I suppose the driver disk supporting SLES10 contains a KMP. In that
case, booting from a SLES10 medium and chosing to include an Add On CD
should work just fine (a KMP prevents you from trouble in case of
updates, too). However, mixing a SLES10 KMP with a SLES10 SP1
installation might not work, in that case you would need to ask the
vendor (3ware) for an updated driver disk.
We did include/backport some externals drivers into SP1 that were
shipped as KMPs with SLES10 - they can be recognized by things suddenly
working without an external driver disk. This seems not to be the case
in your case.
I would recommend to try the following in the following order:
- update the (apparently) existing SLES10 system using the online
updating method.
- install SP1 using the SLES10 Add On CD
- ask 3ware to supply an updated driver disk.
Regards,
Rasmus
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