[SLL] 3ware 9650SE-8LPML CentOS 5 Drivers

[Rob Smith]

On 7/12/07, Glenn Stone <technoshaman at liawol.org> wrote:
> 3Ware got their stuff into the mainline kernel some time ago (like, IIRC,
> 2003); the drivers that are in CentOS 5 may not be the absolute latest and
> greatest, but they should be adequate to at least get you installed.
>
> -- Glenn

Sadly the 9650 cards have native support in 2.6.19 and newer, and
CentOS are only up to 2.6.18, so the easy way is to create a drivers
disk and use the drivers from
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546

There's instructions at the bottom of the page for how to create a drivers disk.

That's as official / stable as you are going to get with CentOS 5. The
next update (5.1) should include a new enough kernel for native
support.

Hope that helps,
~Rob