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Avago Technologies 3ware 9650SE-12ML (Channel) User Manual

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Updating the Firmware and Driver

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21 When the second Completing the Found New Hardware screen

appears, click Finish.

Figure 89. Completing Found New Hardware Wizard

Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or

Fedora Core

The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under Red Hat.

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.

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.