Topic: SME 5.6 / 3ware module load placement

[Tom Keiser]

I am working with a 3-drive machine; one ide is the boot drive, two others are in a Raid 1 array on a 3ware 7210 card.  I am using the standard 3ware driver that is included with SME 5.6

On earlier SME's, I put the "insmod 3w-xxxx" command in the "RAID" section of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.  However, during boot-up, when that command is executed on 5.6, there are 4 failed dependencies, and typically the driver module does not load. Additionally, If the mount command is setup in /etc/fstab for the raid array, it fails, and you end up at a command prompt. If the mount command is not included in /etc/fstab, the machine will boot to completion.

Either way, you can then immediately load the 3ware module and mount the array manually from the console. And, it works perfectly after you do.

This may be related to the fact that fstab is now templated.

It would seem that finding a new place to load the module will fix the problem. Does anyone have any ideas about where it should go?

[guestHH]

Hi,

Just to let you know that Shad Lords is also making efforts with 3ware stuff...

http://lordsfam.net/downloads/alpha/

Regards,
guestHH

[Tom Keiser]

Thanks, RequestedDeletion. As it turns out, I solved my own problem by putting the driver module and array mount commands into rc.local instead of rc.sysinit and fstab, and that seems to work OK.

I looked at Shad Lord's site, and I'll be contacting him.

[herculito]

Hi tom,

Sorry to interupt your tread, just wanted to know if you succeeded in installing the 3ware monitoring utility, already checked shad's page, only for the 6800, unfortunately I have a 7000.

Regards,

Herc