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 4. Driver Installation
46 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
7 If you are using the GRUB boot loader, skip to Step 8.
If you are using the LILO boot loader, run LILO to update the boot record
on disk by typing the following:
/sbin/lilo
The output should be similar to:
Added linux *
8Reboot.
The 3ware kernel driver module will be loaded from the ram disk
automatically at boot time.
To install the 3ware kernel driver module and load the module
manually instead of using a RAM disk
1 Log in as root and open a console window.
2 Mount the CD which contains the 3ware kernel driver module.
To mount the CD, type:
mount /dev/cdrom and press Enter.
3 Copy the kernel driver module.
For Redhat workstation on Intel x86 and AMD x86, type:
cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux/redhat/ws4_u4/x86/
3w-9xxx.<ko, smp, or hug> /lib/modules/
<put kernel string here>/
kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
For Fedora Core on Intel x86 and AMD x86, type:
cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux/fedora/core5/x86/
3w-9xxx. <ko, smp, or hug> /lib/modules/
<put kernel string here>/
kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
If prompted to overwrite, type y.
For Redhat workstation on AMD Opteron and EM64T, type:
cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux/redhat/ws4_u4/x86_64/
3w-9xxx.<ko or smp> /lib/modules/
<put kernel string here>/
kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
For Fedora Core on AMD Opteron and EM64T, type:
cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux/fedora/core5/x86_64/
3w-9xxx.<ko or smp> /lib/modules/
<put kernel string here>/
kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
If prompted to overwrite, type y.
4 Add the following line to
/etc/modules.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx
5 Update the modules.dep file, by issuing the following command:
/sbin/depmod -a