[CentOS] Fujitsu RX200 S3

Thu Aug 30 20:21:21 UTC 2007
Camron W. Fox <cwfox at us.fujitsu.com>

Camron W. Fox wrote:
> Alle,
> 
>     I am trying to install CentOS 5 on a Dual Xeon 5160 FJ RX200 S3. The 
> RAID hardware is an internal LSI MPT 1068 SAS/RAID controller (LSI 
> 1068SASIME-2300). I have downloaded the drivers (mptsas, mptscsih and 
> mptbase) and created the required floppy.
>     When I run linux dd after booting from either the DVD or Disk 1 of 
> the CentOS distro, it says it loads mptsas, mptbase and mptscsih and 
> then comes up with "No drivers of the appropriate type were found", 
> etc... Consequently, the RAID device is not found and no disks are 
> available for installation.
>     When I do this with RHEL5 Disk 1, the drivers load correctly and 
> there is no problem.
>     I went to the LSI Logic site to download the drivers directly from 
> there, but they apparently don't support RHEL5 as of yet for the 
> LSISAS1068.
>     Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Camron
> 
Alle,

	Apparently, I should have just "trusted the process". Doing a regular 
install *without* the using the FJ driver disk works just peachy.

Best Regards,
Camron


Camron W. Fox
Hilo Office
High Performance Computing Group
Fujitsu America, INC.
E-mail:		cwfox at us.fujitsu.com