Dear All;
I want to install Centos 7 latest build on NEC Server 5800/120b-2.
The installation wizard fails to detect the storage connected to LSI SATA MegaRaid PCI.
Centos 5/6 were working fine with this H/W configuration but not the case with Centos 7.
Please; advise.
Fawzy Ibrahim Redhat Certified Engineer
On 7/26/2016 10:20 AM, Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
I want to install Centos 7 latest build on NEC Server 5800/120b-2.
The installation wizard fails to detect the storage connected to LSI SATA MegaRaid PCI.
which megaraid card? they've made quite a lot. lspci will list the card type...
linux will only see storage on a megaraid thats configured as a logical unit (eg, put in a raid). this can be done via megacli, or via the BIOS firmware.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 7/26/2016 10:20 AM, Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
I want to install Centos 7 latest build on NEC Server 5800/120b-2.
The installation wizard fails to detect the storage connected to LSI SATA MegaRaid PCI.
which megaraid card? they've made quite a lot. lspci will list the card type...
linux will only see storage on a megaraid thats configured as a logical unit (eg, put in a raid). this can be done via megacli, or via the BIOS firmware.
Right. Have you configured the server, via the firmware, to present the drives or RAID as a logical drive? Some of those controllers won't let the server find the drive if you haven't done that.
mark
Hi;
LSI SATA MEGARAID 95Q9 as I remember.
I have configured it through the firmware and I have created RAID-1 VD.
But when I start the Centos 7 installation; I can not find any disk !!
On 7/28/2016 3:41 PM, Fawzy Ibrahim wrote:
LSI SATA MEGARAID 95Q9
afaik, the megaraid cards are mostly all SAS, which support SATA drives, except very old ones were SCSI.
Ok, I do see they had a series of MegaRAID SATA 150-xx and 300-xx cards, these were 64 bit PCI or PCI-X cards.
95Q9 does not appear to be a valid card number, 9240, 9260, 9280 are some pci-express SAS MegaRaid cards....
if you want help, please don't guess what you have, figure out what it actually is. the output of `lspci -nn` will identify all boards in your system, for instance...
# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port [8086:3406] (rev 13) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3408] (rev 13) 00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:340a] (rev 13) 00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 [8086:340e] (rev 13) 00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 9 [8086:3410] (rev 13) 00:14.0 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers [8086:342e] (rev 13) 00:14.1 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers [8086:3422] (rev 13) 00:14.2 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers [8086:3423] (rev 13) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a37] 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a3c] 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3a40] 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3a48] 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a34] 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a35] 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a36] 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a3a] 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a16] 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3a22] 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) [102b:0522] (rev 02) 06:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] [1000:0072] (rev 03) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01) 07:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01)
(my storage controller there is the device 06:00.0, a LSI Logic SAS2008 chip, which is actually on a LSI 9211-8i card).
# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port [8086:3406] (rev 22) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3408] (rev 22) 00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:340a] (rev 22) 00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:340c] (rev 22) 00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 [8086:340e] (rev 22) 00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 9 [8086:3410] (rev 22) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 10 [8086:3411] (rev 22) 00:13.0 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub I/OxAPIC Interrupt Controller [8086:342d] (rev 22) 00:14.0 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers [8086:342e] (rev 22) 00:14.1 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers [8086:3422] (rev 22) 00:14.2 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers [8086:3423] (rev 22) 00:14.3 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers [8086:3438] (rev 22) 00:16.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3430] (rev 22) 00:16.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3431] (rev 22) 00:16.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3432] (rev 22) 00:16.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3433] (rev 22) 00:16.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3429] (rev 22) 00:16.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:342a] (rev 22) 00:16.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:342b] (rev 22) 00:16.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:342c] (rev 22) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a37] 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a38] 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a3c] 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3a40] 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3a48] 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a34] 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a35] 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a36] 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a3a] 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a16] 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) SATA RAID Controller [8086:3a25] 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:3a30] 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01) 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) [102b:0522] (rev 02) ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c70] (rev 02) ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d81] (rev 02) ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Link 0 [8086:2d90] (rev 02) ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d91] (rev 02) ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Mirror Port Link 0 [8086:2d92] (rev 02) ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Mirror Port Link 1 [8086:2d93] (rev 02) ff:02.4 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Link 1 [8086:2d94] (rev 02) ff:02.5 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Physical 1 [8086:2d95] (rev 02) ff:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Registers [8086:2d98] (rev 02) ff:03.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder [8086:2d99] (rev 02) ff:03.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller RAS Registers [8086:2d9a] (rev 02) ff:03.4 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers [8086:2d9c] (rev 02) ff:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control [8086:2da0] (rev 02) ff:04.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address [8086:2da1] (rev 02) ff:04.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank [8086:2da2] (rev 02) ff:04.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control [8086:2da3] (rev 02) ff:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control [8086:2da8] (rev 02) ff:05.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address [8086:2da9] (rev 02) ff:05.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank [8086:2daa] (rev 02) ff:05.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control [8086:2dab] (rev 02) ff:06.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Control [8086:2db0] (rev 02) ff:06.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Address [8086:2db1] (rev 02) ff:06.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Rank [8086:2db2] (rev 02) ff:06.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Thermal Control [8086:2db3] (rev 02)
I don't see any LSI hardware in there, at all. Drivers or no, it should show up. Are you sure it's plugged in? Do you see the LSI firmware on the monitor during the boot process?
This is the strange thing because when I configured the vDisks; I logged to LSI SATA MEGARAID firmware.
I got the output of lspci -nn using systemrescuecd version 4.6.1 from https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/
Please; advise
On 7/30/2016 6:56 AM, Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port [8086:3406] (rev 22) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3408] (rev 22) 00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:340a] (rev 22) 00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:340c] (rev 22) 00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 [8086:340e] (rev 22) 00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 9 [8086:3410] (rev 22) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 10 [8086:3411] (rev 22) 00:13.0 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub I/OxAPIC Interrupt Controller [8086:342d] (rev 22) 00:14.0 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers [8086:342e] (rev 22) 00:14.1 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers [8086:3422] (rev 22) 00:14.2 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers [8086:3423] (rev 22) 00:14.3 PIC [0800]: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers [8086:3438] (rev 22) 00:16.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3430] (rev 22) 00:16.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3431] (rev 22) 00:16.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3432] (rev 22) 00:16.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3433] (rev 22) 00:16.4 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:3429] (rev 22) 00:16.5 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:342a] (rev 22) 00:16.6 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:342b] (rev 22) 00:16.7 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 Chipset QuickData Technology Device [8086:342c] (rev 22) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a37] 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a38] 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a3c] 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3a40] 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3a48] 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a34] 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a35] 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a36] 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a3a] 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a16] 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) SATA RAID Controller [8086:3a25] 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:3a30] 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01) 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) [102b:0522] (rev 02) ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c70] (rev 02) ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d81] (rev 02) ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Link 0 [8086:2d90] (rev 02) ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d91] (rev 02) ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Mirror Port Link 0 [8086:2d92] (rev 02) ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Mirror Port Link 1 [8086:2d93] (rev 02) ff:02.4 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Link 1 [8086:2d94] (rev 02) ff:02.5 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Physical 1 [8086:2d95] (rev 02) ff:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Registers [8086:2d98] (rev 02) ff:03.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder [8086:2d99] (rev 02) ff:03.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller RAS Registers [8086:2d9a] (rev 02) ff:03.4 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers [8086:2d9c] (rev 02) ff:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control [8086:2da0] (rev 02) ff:04.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address [8086:2da1] (rev 02) ff:04.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank [8086:2da2] (rev 02) ff:04.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control [8086:2da3] (rev 02) ff:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control [8086:2da8] (rev 02) ff:05.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address [8086:2da9] (rev 02) ff:05.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank [8086:2daa] (rev 02) ff:05.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control [8086:2dab] (rev 02) ff:06.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Control [8086:2db0] (rev 02) ff:06.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Address [8086:2db1] (rev 02) ff:06.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Rank [8086:2db2] (rev 02) ff:06.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Thermal Control [8086:2db3] (rev 02)
I don't see anything on there except the Intel chipsets, a Matrox graphics chip, and the Intel ICH10 south bridge in fake-raid mode, no LSI devices at all.
It's fakeRAID but I do not know why there's no LSI cards in lspci output !!
To manage the disks; I have to use the LSI Sata Megaraid fireware; so is there any hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W?
I have three servers from this model and I was planning to use them as test environment for me.
Is there any way to rebuild kernel drivers or by pass boot parameter dmraid=yes while installing Centos 7?
Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
It's fakeRAID but I do not know why there's no LSI cards in lspci output !!
In the past, the fakeRAID that I've run into were Intel chips, not an LSI card.
mark
To manage the disks; I have to use the LSI Sata Megaraid fireware; so is there any hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W?
I have three servers from this model and I was planning to use them as test environment for me.
Is there any way to rebuild kernel drivers or by pass boot parameter dmraid=yes while installing Centos 7? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 08/09/2016 09:40 AM, Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
It's fakeRAID but I do not know why there's no LSI cards in lspci output !!
To manage the disks; I have to use the LSI Sata Megaraid fireware
As far as I know, LSI doesn't make any fakeraid products. Does the firmware say "LSI" or "MegaRAID" somewhere?
I have opened the case of the server and it's LSI card with FakeRaid !!
What I have to do now as lspci shows it as intel cards?
Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
I have opened the case of the server and it's LSI card with FakeRaid !!
What I have to do now as lspci shows it as intel cards?
If you're responding to my comment, you seem to have misunderstood me. The only servers I had that offered fakeRAID were Intel motherboards, with the chips for fakeRAID on the motherboard, not a separate card. Are you *sure* lspci is not finding the card? Perhaps try lspci | grep -v Intel
mark
It's fakeRAID but I do not know why there's no LSI cards in lspci output !!
To manage the disks; I have to use the LSI Sata Megaraid fireware; so is there any hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W?
I have three servers from this model and I was planning to use them as test environment for me.
Is there any way to rebuild kernel drivers or by pass boot parameter dmraid=yes while installing Centos 7?
On 07/26/2016 12:20 PM, Fawzy Ibrhim wrote:
Dear All;
I want to install Centos 7 latest build on NEC Server 5800/120b-2.
The installation wizard fails to detect the storage connected to LSI SATA MegaRaid PCI.
Centos 5/6 were working fine with this H/W configuration but not the case with Centos 7.
Please; advise.
A number of older storage and network drivers were purged from the kernel with the release of el7. If this hardware is old enough, it's entirely possible that it's no longer supported out of the box.
On 07/26/2016 11:21 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
A number of older storage and network drivers were purged from the kernel with the release of el7. If this hardware is old enough, it's entirely possible that it's no longer supported out of the box.
This is particularly likely if this same hardware has been used with "CentOS 5/6" as reported in the original message.
So; there's no hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W?
On 07/27/2016 12:04 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 07/26/2016 11:21 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
A number of older storage and network drivers were purged from the kernel with the release of el7. If this hardware is old enough, it's entirely possible that it's no longer supported out of the box.
This is particularly likely if this same hardware has been used with "CentOS 5/6" as reported in the original message.
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On 07/28/2016 03:42 PM, Fawzy Ibrahim wrote:
So; there's no hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W?
You need to better identify the card and determine if it's one of the drivers that was dropped. If so, you'd have to build a driver disk and maintain your own driver builds for each kernel update. It's not "no hope" exactly, but it would probably take a moderate amount of experience to keep running.
I'd be wary of hardware used as far back as CentOS 5, but I don't see driver changes between RHEL 6 and 7 that I'd expect to impact an LSI Megaraid card. The old "megaraid" driver was dropped in RHEL 6, leaving just the megaraid_sas driver in 6 and 7. If you run release 6 on that system (boot a live image), look at "lspci" and "lsmod" output. The latter will tell you what drivers are in use, and should be useful to tracking down support in release 7.
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