Gordon:
Do you know which vers of 3ware you have? There is now a 7.5,
and a few months ago, they came out with vers 7.4. Generally, they require you to match the card's firmware to the driver and to the vers of the 3dm utility. There is a "generic" 3ware driver included with SME that will "sort of" work, but which lacks the feature set of the newer drivers and will not support use of the 3DM utility. What will happen if you use this built-in driver with a "wrong" firmware vers on the 3ware card is anybody's guess.
Note that SME 5.1.2 and 5.5 both use kernel 2.2.19, and that is a kernel later than Redhat 7.0 but earlier than RedHat 7.1, so your 3ware drivers really don't fit. Unless you have received something unusual, those drivers you mentioned are available from the 3ware web site.
OTOH, if you are feeling frisky and risky, just install SME and it will find the 3ware card and install its own driver. Later, you can substitute your own driver by copying it into /lib/modules//scsi/ over the one delivered by SME. (Best to rename the SME driver before copying).
Better gurus than I have cautioned strongly against using a driver not specific to your kernel version, but if you have made something work, good for you. And if so, I'd love to know the details.
Good Luck,
Tom
Gordon wrote:
>
> Tom
> I have a driver disk that came with the card for Red Hat
> 6.2/7.0/7.1 nad have used it on 4.1.2 & 5.1.2 with no known
> problems so far. I have now managed to load 5.5 by pressing
> Alt+X before the loading of Linux. I am currently trying to
> reconfirm this action but finding the machine (timing) too
> fast to catch the Alt+X command. On the previous versions
> "accept dd" did the trick. Which is what I did when the
> computer did offer the command line prior to booting.
> Let me know if you need a copy of the driver disk.
> Regards
> Gordon
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