CentOS - Nov 2009 - Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a machine with a LSI SAS 1068E 
controller.  I've googled all over the place and found a few different 
drivers for RHEL5 for it.. and tried a few of them.. Some will load, 
some complain that this isn't the correct version.. non of them work 
when it comes to showing Hard Drivers in the partition manager. The 
machine is a Supermicro SYS-6015V-M3 server. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Billy

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 17:35 -0500, Billy Huddleston
wrote:
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a machine with a LSI SAS 1068E 
> controller.  I've googled all over the place and found a few different 
> drivers for RHEL5 for it.. and tried a few of them.. Some will load, 
> some complain that this isn't the correct version.. non of them work 
> when it comes to showing Hard Drivers in the partition manager. The 
> machine is a Supermicro SYS-6015V-M3 server. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, Billy
> 
Have you setup any RAID volumes the controller BIOS/utility?
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Billy Huddleston wrote:
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a machine with a LSI SAS 1068E 
> controller.  I've googled all over the place and found a few different 
> drivers for RHEL5 for it.. and tried a few of them.. Some will load, 
> some complain that this isn't the correct version.. non of them work 
> when it comes to showing Hard Drivers in the partition manager. The 
> machine is a Supermicro SYS-6015V-M3 server. Any help would be appreciated.
>   
I'm not familiar with that exact LSI chip, but most every LSI Logic 
Fusion-MPT controller I've seen yet has worked just fine with the 
default RHEL drivers.

have you configured the drives in the BIOS of the SAS ?I believe you 
have to set them to be JBOD for everything to be happy, the raid modes 
on those LSI chips is generaly fake-raid with some hardware assist.

Billy Huddleston wrote on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:35:43 -0500:
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a machine with a LSI SAS 1068E 
> controller.
It should work out of the box. I have several Dell and HP machines that 
have cards based on this LSI chip and they worked straight out of the box. 
You configure the RAID in the BIOS and CentOS then just sees one disk. 
Using only RAID 1, though.
If that doesn't work for you, you should definitely talk to the vendor.

Kai

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Billy Huddleston wrote:
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a machine with a LSI SAS 1068E 
> controller.  I've googled all over the place and found a few different 
> drivers for RHEL5 for it.. and tried a few of them.. Some will load, 
> some complain that this isn't the correct version.. non of them work 
> when it comes to showing Hard Drivers in the partition manager. The 
> machine is a Supermicro SYS-6015V-M3 server. Any help would be appreciated.
>   
found a thread [1] on a ubuntu forum talking about a similar SuperMicro 
board with a 1068E, if you weed through the thread, says there's a 
jumper JPA2 on the board, if the jumper is in one position, the board 
uses the Fusion_MPT driver and appears as JBOD, in the other position 
its Megaraid_SAS but didn't work with ubuntu without much fussing aorund 
including flashing an updated LSI 1068E firmware onto the board (which 
is NOT the regular BIOS, furhter, they had to contact SM to get this 
updated firmware as its specific to the exact board revision you have)


[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-973912.html 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-973912.html>

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Billy Huddleston <billy at ivdc.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a machine with a LSI SAS 1068E
> controller. ?I've googled all over the place and found a few different
> drivers for RHEL5 for it.. and tried a few of them.. Some will load,
> some complain that this isn't the correct version.. non of them work
> when it comes to showing Hard Drivers in the partition manager. The
> machine is a Supermicro SYS-6015V-M3 server. Any help would be appreciated.
>
run lspci on the system from the rescue mode of the installer disk.
It will probably say something
like Megaraid.

We have a newer motherbaord from Super Micro and we had the same problem.
The motherboard data info says LSI 1068E but depending on the jumper
setting of the board it could be
1078E instead and that is not supported by Linux until a much later
kernel (2.6.32).

Jumper for IT mode and get the IT firmware and things will work correctly.