[CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

Sun Sep 20 10:14:40 UTC 2020
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 20/09/2020 04:16, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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

I'm pretty sure your device requires the kmod-mpt3sas driver from elrepo 
(not EPEL!), but would need to see the pci device id (from 'lspci -nn') 
to be sure.

If you are installing to this device, disk ISO images for the driver are 
available for use at install time:

https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/

Make sure you pick the image that matches the point release you are 
installing (e.g, el8.0, el8.1, el8.2 etc).