CentOS - Dec 2010 - MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e -- Centos support.

Dear centos community,
I was in the process of installing centos in a machine however during the
install the OS is unable to see the controller "MegaRAID SAS
9280-24i4e", i noticed that LSI has some drivers for centos. Can someone
guide me on how to load the drivers so the OS can see the controller as it
loads. Thank you in advance. Lisandro

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Hi Lisandro,

just look at 
http://www.lsi.de.com/channel/products/raid_controllers/sata_sas/9280-24i4e/index.html
and read the readme.txt. 

1. download the megaraid_sas-v00.00.04.31-CentOs5.5-all.img
2. insert a floppy
3. dd if= megaraid_sas-v00.00.04.31-CentOs5.5-all.img of=/dev/floppy
and type at the boot-prompt "linux dd" 

That's all

Andreas




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Dear centos community,
I was in the process of installing centos in a machine however during the 
install the OS is unable to see the controller "MegaRAID SAS
9280-24i4e",
i noticed that LSI has some drivers for centos. Can someone guide me on 
how to load the drivers so the OS can see the controller as it loads. 
Thank you in advance. Lisandro

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thus Andreas Reschke spake:
> Hi Lisandro,
> 
> just look at 
>
http://www.lsi.de.com/channel/products/raid_controllers/sata_sas/9280-24i4e/index.html
> and read the readme.txt. 
> 
> 1. download the megaraid_sas-v00.00.04.31-CentOs5.5-all.img
> 2. insert a floppy
> 3. dd if= megaraid_sas-v00.00.04.31-CentOs5.5-all.img of=/dev/floppy
> and type at the boot-prompt "linux dd" 
(It should work using an USB stick, too...

Timo)
> That's all
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
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> "Lisandro Grullon" <lgrullon at CityTech.Cuny.Edu> 
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> Dear centos community,
> I was in the process of installing centos in a machine however during the 
> install the OS is unable to see the controller "MegaRAID SAS
9280-24i4e",
> i noticed that LSI has some drivers for centos. Can someone guide me on 
> how to load the drivers so the OS can see the controller as it loads. 
> Thank you in advance. Lisandro

Thank u andrea for the response, but unfortunately  a floppy its not an option
in my box. Can u guide me using a usb flash drive. Much appreciated. Lisandro

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Thank u andrea for the response, but unfortunately  a floppy its not an option
in my box. Can u guide me using a usb flash drive. Much appreciated. Lisandro

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>Can someone guide me on how to load the drivers so the OS can see the
controller as it loads.
Download the driver, you get a dd disk for new installs when your root boots off
the controller
and an rpm can you use after, and or if the controller is not backing your root.

Joseph,
I am sorry but I didn't understood much of your comment, can you brake it
down further step by step...I am doing baby steps in centos.
>>> "Joseph L. Casale"  12/14/10 2:52 PM >>>
>Can someone guide me on how to load the drivers so the OS can see the
controller as it loads.
Download the driver, you get a dd disk for new installs when your root boots off
the controller
and an rpm can you use after, and or if the controller is not backing your root.
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>I am sorry but I didn't understood much of your comment, can you brake
it down further step by step...I am doing baby steps in centos.
Are you installing CentOS to boot off this controller, yes or no?

Yes, the entire install will be done from a box using this controller and 10
SATA HDDs. Probably will load a mirror from two disks partitions to have some
fault tolerance them do the rest of my partitions using LVM. Just having a
difficult time loading the LSi driver from the loading process. I wish this can
be done from a USB stick since the machine does not have a floppy.
>>> "Joseph L. Casale"  12/14/10 3:56 PM >>>
>I am sorry but I didn't understood much of your comment, can you brake
it down further step by step...I am doing baby steps in centos.
Are you installing CentOS to boot off this controller, yes or no?
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>I wish this can be done from a USB stick since the machine does not have a
floppy.
The dd can be loaded via http, even easier than usb...
Use a kickstart, `driverdisk --source=http://path/to/dd.img`
Something like that is prolly avail from the grub boot menu, see the manual.