[CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

Sun Sep 20 03:16:49 UTC 2020
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 8:04 PM William Markuske <wmarkuske at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've recently been given domain over a number of supermicro storage
> servers using Broadcom / LSI SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2
> [Spitfire] (rev 03) to run a bunch of SSDs. I was attempting to do fresh
> installs of CentOS 8 and have come to find out that RedHat deprecated
> support for a number of HBAs for 8 including all running the SAS2004 chip.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a driver available for this chip from a
> third party repo? My google searches have led me to believe that EPEL 8
> has a kmod-mpt3sas package but it does not seem to exist though multiple
> blogs have stated otherwise. If anyone knows if there is a solution for
> CentOS 8 that would be great or if I have to roll back to CentOS 7 for
> card support.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William

It is ELRepo, not EPEL. :)

http://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-adapters.html

Akemi