User guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Introducing the 3ware® SATA RAID Controller
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
- Driver Installation
- Driver Installation Under Windows
- Driver Installation Under Linux
- Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
- Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 5
- Materials required
- Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module while Installing Red Hat Linux on a New Unit
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux System that Boots From a Different Device
- About Variables In the Kernel Driver Module Installation Instructions
- Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux
- Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux
- Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
- 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Introduction
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Configuring a New Unit
- Creating a Hot Spare
- Naming a Unit
- Setting Unit Policies
- Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
- Deleting a Unit
- Removing a Unit
- Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
- Adding a Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Rescanning the Controller
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Maintaining Your Controller
- Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver
- Updating the Firmware and Driver
- Downloading the Driver and Firmware
- Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
- Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows
- Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
- Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD
- Viewing Battery Information
- Testing Battery Capacity
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
Chapter 10. Maintaining Your Controller
180 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
To update the 3ware driver under SuSE
1 Download and extract the driver, as described under “Downloading the
Driver and Firmware” on page 165.
2 Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver.
3 Change the directory to the location with the extracted driver.
4 Copy the files to the appropriate directory.
(In the commands below, replace <version> with applicable SuSE
version, such as su10)
Replace <kernel> with applicable kernel (i.e.: 2.6.16.x)
For SuSE Uniprocessor (2.6 kernels)
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.ko /lib/modules/<kernel>/drivers/scsi
For SuSE SMP (2.6 kernels)
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.smp /lib/modules/<kernel>/kernel/
drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
For SuSE high memory systems (2.6 kernels)
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.big /lib/modules/<kernel>/kernel/
drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
5Run /sbin/depmod -a
6 Make sure the file /lib/modules/<kernel string>/modules.dep
contains an entry for 3w-9xxx. If not, add it after the 3w-xxxx entry.
7 Complete the upgrade by upgrading the initial ramdisk. (Skip to step 10 if
you prefer to use insmod 3w-9xxx.o, instead.)
Make sure the file /
etc/sysconfig/kernel
contains the following line:
INITRD_MODULES=”3w-9xxx”
8 Run mkinitrd.
9 If you are using lilo, use lilo to update to the boot loader.
You should see a printout of kernels that are able to boot on this system
after running lilo.
10 Reboot, if booted from the 3ware controller. Otherwise, continue with
step 11.
The driver is now updated.
Note: Other modules may be listed before or after 3w-9xxx
depending on the installation. You may see entries likes reiserfs, ext3
or scsi_mod. Leave these entries alone, if present, as the system may
need them to boot properly.