LSI 1068E REDHAT DRIVER

You can write your own script around megasasctl to check your adapter status health periodically. Here is what to do:. Supermicro told me to use drivers from here ftp: If megasasctl doesn't work for you, you will have to use the proprietary cli utility from LSI: If not, it won't be used to avoid filling cache with randon useless data in case of randomly accessed sector. After that, you'll be able to boot from SAS.
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There is an rpm, but I've no idea how to make that available or use it at install time.

With this option, readahead will only be enabled if the controller receive several access to sequencial sectors. The first thing you'll have to do is to list IDs of all your physical disks:. Mind you, I now know more about my RAID controller than I would have had it not been so broken, so it's not a complete loss!

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In this mode, Ubuntu detects the drives just fine and allows me to setup soft raid in linux. Support of SuperMicro can help you with determine which FirmWare you should use: Proprietary tools creates the device node at startup. Do you suggest that we should patch the BIOS??

When the utility finishes creating the volume, the main screen reappears.

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Ubuntu has kept me quite happy up until now and I would like to keep using it if possible. But before flash, I had to be sure - JPA2 is switched to "unplugged" state.

The packages comes with a python wrapper around megacli and an initscript that periodic run this wrapper to check status. BIOS upgrade from a Linux system. A second one with a RAID6 arrays of 7 drives with one offline the array has just been created so it's under initialization too.

After that, I had a look into manual of motherboard, and here was some part about possibility to eedhat use hardware raid. See the table on the right for jumper settings. Write cache should be enabled ONLY if you have a battery pack on your controller.

Supermicro refhat me to use drivers from here ftp: So for resolve this problem, we contact SuperMicro support. A server with two controllers old script version output, sorry redhag no such hardware to get a newer example: But this mode have one great bug.

For the record, I eventually gave up on the built-in controller and bought a 3Ware SA controller. However LSI provide megaclia proprietary management command line utility which is rather hard to use.

Hello, one solution exist. After that, you'll be able to boot from SAS. The volume is created.

Select the type of volume you want to create, 10068e this case an IME volume. In this state I'm not able to setup hardware raid in fact, it's pseudo-hardware raidbut I'm able tu setup software raid, and boot from SAS disks Thanks in advance for any help.

I have some knowledge about partitioning and software raid in linux, but nothing much that can help me sort out this controller issue. Use regular readahead instead: Until arrays are healthy again a reminder will be sent each 2 hours.

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Totally fed up with all these issues I decided to put in a decent RAID controller with proper linux support, a store nearby had an Adaptec on stock. Hope someone else can benefit.

Just to see if RedHat actually works with their rddhat, I set up the installer and tried to use the drivers they pointed me at. After that, you'll not be able to set-up hardware raid, and u'll be able to see SAS disks from linux.

That is, you cannot mirror a disk with itself.

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