Creating a driver diskette – Dell Serial Attached SCSI Host Bus Adapter 5i Integrated and 5E Adapter User Manual
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Driver Installation
Creating a Driver Diskette
Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Dell™ PowerEdge™ Service and Diagnostic
Utilities CD or download the driver appropriate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 3, 4, and 5) from
the Dell Support website at support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This file includes two Red Hat
Package Managers (RPMs) and driver update disk files. The package also contains the Dynamic Kernel
Module Support (DKMS) Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) file.
The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system, perform the
following steps.
1
gunzip
the package.
2 Execute
tar xvf
on the package.
Note that the package contains DKMS RPM, the driver RPM (DKMS enabled) and the Driver Update
Diskette (DUD image(s)).
3 Use the
dd
command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate image for the purpose.
"dd if=<name of the dd image file> of=/dev/fd0"
4 Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in this section.
Creating a Driver Update Diskette
The files and directories that are needed to create the Driver Update Diskette (DUD) are mentioned below.
NOTE:
The SAS 5 driver package installs these files. You do not need to do anything at this point.
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The directory /usr/src/mptlinux-<driver_version> contains the driver source code, dkms.conf, and
specifications file for the driver.
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The subdirectory redhat_driver_disk contains the files needed to create the DUD. The files needed are
disk_info, modinfo, modules.dep, and pcitable.
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To create the DUD image for pre-Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 4), the kernel source package
must be installed to compile the driver. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 distribution, the kernel source
is not needed.
Perform the following steps to create the DUD using the DKMS tool:
1 Install the DKMS-enabled SAS 5 driver RPM package on a system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
operating system.
2 Type the following command in any directory:
dkms mkdriverdisk -d redhat -m mptlinux -v <driver version>
-k <kernel version>
This starts the process to create the SAS 5 DUD image.
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