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Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under Red Hat.
 
Note: Pre-compiled, tested, and supported drivers are no longer available for older RedHat or Fedora Core releases using the 2.4 kernel. The source code is still available (for a limited time) if a newer driver is still needed. Check the release notes for more details regarding supported operating systems
To update the 3ware driver under Red Hat
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(In the commands below, replace <version> with the applicable Red Hat or Fedora Core version, such as ws4_u4 or fc5, and replace <kernel> with the applicable kernel, for example 2.6.15-x)
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 or Fedora Core 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
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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
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Change the directory to the boot directory:
cd /boot
Run mkinitrd by entering the following:
(In the commands below, replace <kernel> with the applicable kernel, for example 2.4.20-8)
For Red Hat or Fedora Core Uniprocessor
mkinitrd –v –f initrd-<kernel>.img <kernel>
For Red Hat SMP
mkinitrd –v –f initrd-<kernel>smp.img <kernel>smp
For Red Hat Bigmem
mkinitrd –v –f initrd-<kernel>bigmem.img <kernel>bigmem
For Red Hat Hugemem
mkinitrd –v –f initrd-<kernel>hugmem.img <kernel>hugmem
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You should see a printout of kernels that are able to boot on this system after running lilo.

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