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there’s no standard for mapping those SAS (or SCSI) backplane lights to specific drives, and my general experience is the lights only work right with brand name systems using their own brand name proprietary raid piles. Thats something thats remained a deep dark secret in the linux (and generic unix) world, ‘left as an exercise to the reader’. To find this stuff, go here, select “Legacy Host Bus Adapters”, and LSI SAS 3081E-R, and Search… or flash it using MSDOS (freedos on a usb stick) or using EFI shell (if your system is so endowed). Thats an older SAS1 card, and has 2TB disk limits, I believe, which can’t readily be circumvented.Ĭonfusing, but to flash these, you need to get the SAS3081ER_Package_P21_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows, unzip it, and locate the firmware and BIOS files for IT mode, then get the flash2sas utility for Linux to actually flash the files. I believe the 1068E was used on the SAS3081/3082 cards Those have two firmware sets, IR or IT, if your card has the IRįirmware, do yourself a favor, find the “IT” Firmware on Avago’s webpile, and reflash the card with it, and now its a straight SAS card, your disks are seen as native SAS drives, and you can use linux native mdraid on it (and/or LVM or whatever).
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Wait, a 1068E is not a megaraid, thats a HBA (host bus adapter) with optional very limited raid in firmware (typically raid0, 1, 10 only). Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 77 lib/modules/2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko kernel-2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64Īs you see, all works for me with stock kernel, no need to fiddle with anything. Mptscsih 36638 1 mptsas mptbase 93647 2 mptsas,mptscsih scsi_transport_sas 35588 1 mptsas Here is what I’ve got (I’m obliterating hostname below): I happen to have Dell R410 that runs CentOS 6.