3ware 3dm2 and Fedora 10

[Clive Messer]

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 15:51 -0500, Mike Zingale wrote:
> Has anyone succeeded in installing one of the latest versions of the
> 3ware 3dm2 software on Fedora 10 (x86_64)?  I tried both 9.5.1.1 and
> 9.4.1.3, but in both cases, the setupLinux_x64.bin program aborted
> claiming that it was unable to delete some temporary files.  Looking
> through the script some, it seems that it may be related to Java, but
> I couldn't find a way around this.
> 
> Ultimately, I wound up installing an older version, 9.3.0.4, which
> seems to work fine on Fedora 10 (i.e., I can access 3dm2 through
> firefox and monitor my RAID).  But I'd like to know what the issue
> with the newer versions is.
> 

Mike,

The 3ware setup/install does not play nice with the Fedora openjdk. When
I installed 3ware 9.5.1.1 some time ago, I downloaded Sun Java tgz, set
JAVA_HOME env var and added $JAVA_HOME/bin to front of path, before
running the setup program. That worked.

Regards

Clive
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