Since this no longer pertains to Promise FastTrack - Please change SUBJECT. Thanks, Tom On Tuesday 26 October 2004 16:23, Omar Castañeda Acosta wrote: > Me neither, I'm running right now 2 servers that use different 3ware 9000 > series cards (one with 2 8-port and another one with a 12-port). One is SMP > the other UP, and both have the pre-compiled driver found in the update > package for the kernel (2.6.8-1.521). > > BTW, I forgot to say that you must remove the old 3ware driver from > /etc/modprobe.conf then reboot for the new driver to work properly (at > least on my experience). It looks like during the installation FC2 treats > the 9000 card as a 7000/8000 card and tries to load the 3w-xxxx driver, and > it's left in /etc/modprobe.conf (even loaded into the kernel until you > manually remove it). > > I don't know why it didn't work for you. Maybe you didn't use the full path > in your insmod command line. BTW, the driver filename doesn't match the > module name [for 3w-9xxx]. That means: > > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko > > or > > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko > > but > > rmmod 3w-9xxx won't work, 'cause the module is called 3w_9xxx > > instead use > > rmmod 3w_9xxx > > I know most of the list readers could find this out by yourselves, but > sometimes this silly stuff is useful for some begginner who just happens to > be stuck with something like this. > > Omar > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: > Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:53 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Promise FastTrack drivers for FC2 > > Am Di, den 26.10.2004 schrieb Eucke Warren um 23:34: > > No, he did not say anything contradictory but I wanted to point out that > > the "later" kernel (2.6.8-1.521), the one that he mentioned, did not work > > as he said for my build. All I was saying was that my experience was > > different and that the 3w-9xxx.ko module does not exist unless you > > compile it yourself and manually insmod and kick it into operation. The > > native support for the 9000 series does not exist with the 2.6.8-1.521 > > kernel but will in future revs...that comes from the 3ware support within > > the last week. > > > > -Eucke > > I can not acknowledge this statement! > > /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko > > You see I am running the Fedora Core 2 kernel (just SMP version) and _it > has_ the requested module. I don't know why you miss it. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp > Serendipity 00:51:31 up 6 days, 21:31, load average: 0.54, 0.33, 0.50 -- Tom Taylor Registered linux user #263467
