RE: 3ware 9000 Series SATA Raid and Fedora Core 2 ?

Thursday, 30 September 2004

Here I'm again.

I still have some problems.

I did a fresh install from the cd images available as iso files (kernel
2.6.5-1.358)
I edited /etc/yum.conf (to download from a local mirror server instead of
the primary fedora server)
Updated my system with yum update to kernel 2.6.8-1.521

In /etc/modprobe.conf I replaced
	alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-xxxx
With
	alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-9xxx

In a terminal window I typed
	/sbin/modprobe -r 3w-xxxx
	/sbin/modprobe 3w-9xxx
To remove the old driver and load the new one

At that moment I'm able to see my raid disk as /dev/sdb
(The sata drive connected to the main board is /dev/sda)

In a terminal window I typed
	/sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd/2.6.8-1.521smp.img 2.6.6-1.521smp

But after a reboot the old driver 3w-xxxx is loaded again and /dev/sdb is
gone

In kernel startup log I see a message
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v.1.26.00.039
3w-xxxx No cards found

I did this for both kernels: 2.6.8-1.521smp and 2.6.8-1.521

How can I make my Linux load the 3w-9xxx driver at startup instead of the
old 3w-xxxx ????

TIA, Erwin

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Erwin Cloostermans
Sent: vrijdag 24 september 2004 0:09
To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
Subject: RE: 3ware 9000 Series SATA Raid and Fedora Core 2 ?

You removed the entry for your motherboard  SATA adapter 
(ata_piix) from modprobe.conf, so the root filesystem can't be 
accessed.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka(a)iki.fi

How stupid can one be :-((
At least now I know what the first scsi_host_adapter was for :-) Erwin

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