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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I recently installed FC2 on a new system containing the
following hardware:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Intel Pentium4</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Supermicro P4SCi mainboard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>3ware S9500-8 raid controller</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>4x WD sata drives 250GB connected to raid
controller</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>1x WD sata drive connected to maind board (boot
disk)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'm a Linux dummie and can't get my raid controllor
installed. Is </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>there anybody who wants to help me ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=094023218-23092004>Alexander already
told me that the driver for red hat 9.0 on the cdrom that came with my
controller isn't compatible with FC2.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=094023218-23092004>He also told me that
an update to the most recent kernel of FC2 should work because it has the needed
kernel module.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>After some manipulations in
the yum config file i was able to update to kernel </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>2.6.8-1.521smp</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>But i stil see no raid
controller.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>When I choose "hardware
browser" from the system tools menu and click on RAID devices in the list
on the left i get the following info:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004> <FONT face=Arial>Selected
Device: 3wara ATA-RAID</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004> <FONT face=Arial>Device
information:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT
face=Arial> Manufacturer: 3ware
Inc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004>
<FONT face=Arial>Driver: 3w-xxxx</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>I expected 3w-9xxx
because the manual of the controller says 3w-xxxx is for series
7000/8000</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>when I type fdisk -l in an
attempt to see a device to partition all i get are the 3 partitions on my boot
disk attached to the main board: /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
/dev/sda3</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>when I type cat
/proc/scsi/3w-9xxx/0 which according to the manual of the controller should give
the current version of the driver i get : No such file or
directory</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>when i go to the /proc/scsi
directory and type ls -l there is only one file called sg</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial>Is there anybody who can
help me out ???</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=094023218-23092004><FONT
face=Arial>Erwin</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>