Updating The 3Ware Driver Under Red Hat Or Fedora Core - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or
Fedora Core
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21 When the second Completing the Found New Hardware screen
appears, click Finish.
Figure 89. Completing Found New Hardware Wizard
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 Linux releases using the 2.4 kernel. The source code is still
available (for a limited time) if a newer 2.4 driver is still needed. Check the release
notes for more details regarding supported operating systems
Backup your original driver before updating in case you need to revert back to it.
However, you will not be able to revert back to the original driver if you are booting
from that unit.
To update the 3ware driver under Red Hat
1 Download and extract the driver, as described under "Downloading the
Driver and Firmware" on page 181.
2 Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver.
3 Change the directory to the location with the extracted driver.
Updating the Firmware and Driver
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