[CentOS] Intel SSD

[Eero Volotinen]

strace -f -e open software_binary might help, but I have noticed that
Centos is not really 100% binary compatible in some cases.



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Eero

2015-11-18 17:42 GMT+02:00 Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com>:

> I always tell vendors I'm using RHEL, even though we're using CentOS.
> If you say CentOS, some vendors immediately throw up their hands and
> say "unsupported" and then won't even give you the time of day.
>
> A couple tricks for fooling tools into thinking they are on an actual
> RHEL system:
> 1. Modify /etc/redhat-release to say RedHat Enterprise Linux or
> whatever the actual RHEL systems have
> 2. Similarly modify /etc/issue
>
> Another tip that has proven successful: run the vendor tool under
> strace.  Sometimes you can get an idea of what it's trying to do and
> why it's failing.  This is exactly what we did to determine why a
> vendor tool wouldn't work on CentOS.  We had modified
> /etc/redhat-release (as in (1) above), but forgot about /etc/issue.
> Strace showed the program existing immediately after an open() call to
> /etc/issue.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Michael Hennebry
> <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> 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?
> >>
> >> I talked to the Intel support and they said the problem is that Centos
> is
> >> not supported OS ... only RHEL 7.
> >> But if not supported should not work on the LSI controlled neither.
> >
> >
> > 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".
> >
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