Building a driver disk for 3ware

[dhav]

Hi all,

So I ran into this little jam today. I'm installing fc3 onto a raid0 that sits on a 3ware 9550sx controller. The controller is pretty new so the driver isn't built into the installer kernel. I need to build a driver disk for fc3...

The installer is 2.6.9-something, I don't have any machines that old. 3ware doesn't provide a 'driver disk', they have pre-built modules for fc4 and source code for the rest of the 2.6 world. I looked on another driver disk to see the format and noticed that it's not just a .ko or something happy like that, it has a .cgz etc.

So, any ideas how to get this to install?

thanks all!

[jowah]

No need to create a driver disk - have a look at this 3Ware KB article: Q14546 (http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546) - there's a driver disk(*) for FC3 for you there.

(*) Actually, it's a ZIP archive containing files you should put on a diskette, thereby creating a "driver disk" in RedHat/Fedora installation procedure terms.

[dhav]

No need to create a driver disk - have a look at this 3Ware KB article: Q14546 (http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546) - there's a driver disk(*) for FC3 for you there.

(*) Actually, it's a ZIP archive containing files you should put on a diskette, thereby creating a "driver disk" in RedHat/Fedora installation procedure terms.


AWESOME! I wish I would have found that ;)

Thanks a TON!

On the other hand :) does anybody actually know to make a disk like this? Here are the contents:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 66 Oct 28 11:48 modinfo*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 192985 Oct 28 11:48 modules.cgz*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27 Oct 28 11:48 modules.dep*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Oct 28 11:48 pcitable*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37 Oct 28 11:48 rhdd*


Serioulsy, jowah, thanks a bunch..

dhav

[jowah]

On the other hand :) does anybody actually know to make a disk like this?Copy the files to a normal MS-DOS formatted floppy (or a Linux EXT2fs-formatted one) and that should be it...
Serioulsy, jowah, thanks a bunch..I'm most pleased to have been of some help :)

[dhav]

Copy the files to a normal MS-DOS formatted floppy (or a Linux EXT2fs-formatted one) and that should be it...
I'm most pleased to have been of some help :)


Heh, thanks for your reply, what I'm looking to do is make my own driver disk from scratch. Let's say all I have is a kernel module for a piece of hardware, what do I need to do to MAKE my own modules.cgz and modules.dep etc..

[jowah]

For that purpose, I once saved this bookmark for future use that might be of help: Welcome to ddiskit! (http://people.redhat.com/linville/ddiskit/)

I haven't actually ever made a driver disk on my own, so YMMV, but good luck!