Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Birta Levente wrote: > >> I have a supermicro server, motherboard is with C612 chipset and beside that with LSI3108 raid controller integrated.Two Intel SSD DC S3710 200GB. OS: Centos 7.1 up to date. >> >> My problem is that the Intel SSD Data Center Tool (ISDCT) does not recognize the SSD drives when they connected to the standard S-ATA ports on the motherboard, but through the LSI raid controller is working. >> >> Does somebody know what could be the problem? <snip> > Perhaps the tool looks for the string RHEL. > My recollection is that when IBM PC's were fairly new, > IBM used that trick with some of its software. > To work around that, some open source developers used the string "not > IBM".I think this was pre-internet, so google might not work. > > If it's worth the effort, you might make another "CentOS" distribution, but call it "not RHEL". > I'll add to that: it was only maybe three years ago that to get one of Dell's support tools (Dset, maybe) to run on one of our CentOS boxes was to edit /etc/redhat-release so that it had the RH info, instead of saying CentosOS release ... You might try that. > -- > Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu > "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." That's never going to work - where the hell do you find a virgin? mark