megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2

[Jonathan Delgado]

    I will also note that it is not an issue of compatibility between  
the LSI-provided MegaCli and the Dell PERC5/i. I use the exact same  
RPM under SuSE's SLES10 on the same hardware without any problems.

-Jonathan

On Apr 9, 2007, at 3:12 PM, I wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I have some Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers equipped with their  
> PERC5/i SAS RAID controller (OEM is LSI). In general they work  
> fine. The mfi driver is being used and I get some occassional  
> blurbs logged by the driver. I am having poor results though trying  
> to get the megacli port (sysutils/linux-megacli) to work with it.
>
>    For example, if I call 'megacli -AdpAllInfo -aALL' I get junk/ 
> empty output like:
> Adapter #0
>
> ====================================================================== 
> ========
>                 Versions
>                 ================
> Product Name    :
> Serial No       :
> FW Package Build:
> FW Version      :
> BIOS Version    :
> Ctrl-R Version  :
>
>                 Pending Images In Flash
>                 ================
> None
>
>                 PCI Info
>                 ================
> Vendor Id       : 0000
> Device Id       : 0000
> SubVendorId     : 0000
> SubDeviceId     : 0000
>
> Host Interface  : UNKOWN
>
> Number of Frontend Port: 0
> Device Interface  : UNKOWN
> ...
>
>
>    I am getting this result with multiple systems, one running 6.2- 
> RELEASE p3, the other a recent (as of today) build of 6.2-STABLE. I  
> am using linux_base-fc-4_9 for the Linux compat install, and the  
> specific package of megacli is linux-megacli-1.01.09_1. linprocfs  
> and linsysfs are both mounted. mfi_linux.ko is loaded. The device  
> seems to be recognized within the linux subsystem, as I have:
>
> # cat /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/proc_name
> megaraid_sas
>
>    From what I have been able to dig up from past posts to the  
> mailing lists: others have been able to get this working fine, but  
> I'm not sure if any have been specifically with 6.2 and the PERC5/i  
> controller. If anyone has any clues or tips for how to proceed with  
> this, it would be much appreciated.
>
>    Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Delgado, Systems Manager
> Molecular Biology
> Massachusetts General Hospital
>
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