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On Thursday 23 May 2002 03:11 am, Tucker I Sylvestro wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I spent the today (yesterday now, actually ;) installing gentoo linux on |
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> my computer which contains a 3ware Escalade 6410 RAID card. Since the |
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> 3ware drivers aren't compiled into the stock installation kernel that |
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> comes on your 1.1a CD, I had to jump through some hoops to make it work, |
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> and I wrote up a rough HOWTO as I went along. It is attached, in case you |
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> want to put it on the website somewhere. I recommend doing so, as such a |
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> document would have saved me several hours today. |
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> Also, you might want to consider activating the 3ware drivers in the |
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> installation kernel in your next release. I don't know of any downsides |
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> to doing so, and 3ware is a company that specifically targets the Linux |
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> market by providing source code for the drivers. |
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Hi Tucker, |
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Nice job on the howto. I have an escalade 7850 on my gentoo/source-mage |
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system at home (dual boot) and was able to install just fine from the gento |
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1.1a disk. The 3w-xxxx drivers were available on the cd, so all I had to do |
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was a |
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modprobe 3w-xxxx |
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and my scsi device was recognized. Of course, then you have modprobe the scsi |
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disk module to see the drives themselves. Are you sure you didn't overlook |
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the drivers when you booted of the cdrom, or are you using an older cdrom to |
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install perhaps? |
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I did not need to do any of the compilation steps you did to bootstrap the |
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initial mount of /mnt/gentoo, or did I have to create /dev/sda or /dev/sdb |
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IIRC. |
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Jean. |
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