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RH9 installer does not detect 3ware IDE RAID controller

I'm having a problem installing RedHat 9 on one of my servers which is using a 3ware ATA RAID controller (an older model). The installer says it's loading the 3wxxx driver, then goes to the CD media test, then says it's loading the driver again. shortly after it says it did not detect and hard drives in the machine.

Now I have tried the RedHat 8 installer and IT works fine. detects the 2 40gig mirrors I have made with the 3ware. I suspect something must have changed in the redhat 9 installer that is not making it work. But I have no idea what to try. Any suggestions or if anyone has had a similar problem I would like to hear about it. Thanks!
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i will try this and see what happens. Problem is I do not know the model (i suspect it is 5000). Its a very long PCI card with 8 IDE ports (yikes). Once i'm able to try the firmware update i'll let you know what happens.
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Thanks Dave!

That sounds like a good idea. I will check out some on ebay and see if i can recognize it. If I can recognize one with a model number then I may just pull that machine out of hiding and get it working! It has been so long I have since replaced the machine itself with a new one.