Updating the Driver and Firmware
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Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat
The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under Red Hat.
To update the 3ware driver under Red Hat
1 Download and extract the driver, as described on page 200.
2 Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver.
3 Change the directory to the location with the extracted driver.
4 Copy the files to the appropriate directory.
(In the commands below, replace <version> with the applicable Red Hat
version, such as ws3_x86, and replace <kernel> with the applicable
kernel, for example 2.4.20-8)
Note: The name of the module you will copy (3w-9xxx.*) varies,
depending on the kernel; however you will always copy it to a file named
3w-9xxx.o for 2.4 kernels, or 3w-9xxx.ko for 2.6 kernels
For Red Hat Uniprocessor
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.o /lib/modules/
<kernel>/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.o
For Red Hat SMP
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.smp /lib/modules/
<kernel>/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.o
For Red Hat Bigmem
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.big /lib/modules/
<kernel>/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.o
For Red Hat Hugemem
cp <version>/3w-9xxx.hug /lib/modules/
<kernel>/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.o
5 For 2.4 Kernels, add the following line to
/etc/modules.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx.o
For 2.6 Kernels, add the following line to
/etc/modprobe.conf.
alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx.ko
6 Complete the upgrade by upgrading the initial ramdisk.
Change the directory to the boot directory:
cd /boot
Run mkinitrd by entering the following:
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