Megaraid Storage Manager Dell Perc 6/i
The new PERC 5 and PERC 6 RAID controllers use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), and a new driver, megaraidsas. The new SAS 5 and SAS 6 non-RAID controllers use a new driver, mptsas, part of the mptfusion driver family.
- I have a PERC H700 controller from Dell which appears to be a re. But it only has the MegaRaid Storage Manager for. LSI Storage Manger for Windows PERC H700.
- Has anyone managed to install megaraid storage manager (it's a monitoring tool from lsi logic for their raid controllers) to ubuntu(any version)? I have a dell perc 5.
Avago Megaraid Storage Manager
Both drivers are included in kernel.org 2.6.x kernels, and have been backported to the RHEL3 2.4.21-x kernels. Use OMSA 5.1 or higher, including the OM Storage Services component, to manage your PERC 5 (and earlier) controllers. The PERC 5 SAS RAID adapters cannot use the same LSI management tools as their SCSI RAID counterparts (PERC 4 and earlier). Instead, use the new. Moritz Mertinkat has created a PERC 5/i + MegaCLI which provides useful instructions for managing this controller via the command line tool. Please note that these LSI tools are not officially supported by Dell on Linux and are provided here for informational purposes only. MegaRAID SCSI Dell sells a number of RAID cards or ROMBs which use the LSI (formerly AMI) MegaRAID driver which is part of the stock 2.2.x, 2.4.x, and 2.6.x kernels.
Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager v 2.16 Driver Details. Added support for PERC 6/i Adapter and SAS 6/iR controllers.
N.B.: PERC 5 controllers use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), which uses the new megaraidsas driver. This is a new family of products, and the tools used for managing the SCSI RAID adapters do not work for the SAS RAID adapters.
A list for people actively developing Linux SCSI drivers, including the megaraid driver. Drivers Note: Use the mailing lists to get support for these drivers. Dell posts updated megaraid drivers on. LSI maintains the most recent megaraid-series drivers in the kernel.org SCSI development tree.
If you're looking for the cutting-edge drivers, copy them out of Andrew Morton's -mm patchset from kernel.org. LSI posts historical copies of the megaraid driver for 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels on. You should use these instead of the older driver versions below. Archived older versions of the driver for 2.2.x and 2.4.x can be found in.
(You need a patch from the mailing list from 2 January 2003 to build with 2.2.x kernels.) A development-level megaraid 2.00 driver for 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels is available in the. Distributions. kernel.org distributed kernels.
LSI engineers maintain the megaraidmbox driver in kernel 2.6.x. This supports Dell PERC 3 and PERC 4 series cards. Older PERC 2 and earlier cards can be made to work with the megaraidlegacy (name as of 2.6.16, formerly 'megaraid') driver, though their use is unsupported by Dell or LSI. Report issues to the public mailing list linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org. Marcelo's 2.4.x-stock contains megaraid and megaraid2 drivers. Megaraid2 is preferred, especially for PERC 3 and PERC 4 cards. Red Hat.
Perc 6 I Controller
Halo 2 Serial Number. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel 2.6.9-5.EL and above) includes the 'megaraidmbox' driver for all PERC 3 and PERC 4 series cards. Support for older PERC 2 and earlier generation cards has been dropped. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kernel 2.4.21-4.EL and above) includes megaraid and also megaraid2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (kernel 2.4.9-e.3) includes megaraid v1.18, and works with most LSI/AMI MegaRAID controllers, except PE2600, 1750, 2750 PERC4/Di (ROMB), and the PERC4/SC cards. For these, you'll need the 'megaraid2002' driver disk available from Red Hat on their support pages.
errata kernel 2.4.9-e.12 includes a new megaraid2002 driver (v2.00.2) which supports PE2600 ROMB too. Driver disks for installing are available.
Use 'expert noprobe dd' at the boot: prompt, and manually choose the megaraid2002 driver first, then any other drivers you need, like e1000. Because this driver disk is broken, it installs the uniprocessor driver into the SMP kernel. To fix this, after using the driver disk, boot into the uniprocessor kernel, upgrade to the latest errata kernel, which will remake your initrds with good drivers, then reboot again.
Red Hat Linux 9 (kernels 2.4.20-6 or 2.4.20-8) includes megaraid v1.18f, and works with all LSI/AMI MegaRAID controllers, including PERC3 and PERC4. Red Hat Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-14) includes megaraid v1.18d, and works with all PERC2, PERC3, and PERC4/Di on PowerEdge 2600 LSI/AMI MegaRAID controllers, but not PERC4/Di on PowerEdge 1750 and 2750. For PERC4/Di, get the. Red Hat Linux 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3) includes megaraid v1.18a, and works with all PERC2 and PERC3-series LSI/AMI MegaRAID controllers, but not PERC4/Di on PowerEdge 2600, 1750 or 2750. For PERC4/Di, get the. for Red Hat Linux 6.2 Retail or SBE2 for use with all megaraid cards.
Untar this onto a FAT-formatted floppy so all the files are in the top-level directory. Install using 'expert'. Dell hasn't done a lot of testing with this, but we think it's OK. Use at your own risk.
Novell / SuSE. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) carries the megaraidmbox driver for use on Dell PERC4 and higher adapters.
Dell has not tested PERC 3 adapters on SLES9, but in general it should work fine (as it does in RHEL4). Debian. Woody has the megaraid driver on the (2.2.20). (thanks to Curtis Nelson for pointing this out). Rory Campbell-Lange has made built-in. Ronald Sprouse has a Debian Woody that works on the PowerEdge 2600.
It has the e1000 and megaraid 2.00.2 drivers built-in. Management Utility. perc-cerc-apps-6.03-A06.tar.gz includes Dellmgr-5.31, linflash-3.01, Megamon-4.0-0a, percsnmp-4.09-1 (Search support.dell.com for R71524). John Reuning wrote a to monitor megaraid arrays. Qlogic QLogic now posts their drivers in DKMS RPM format. You can download them from.
To remain an EMC qualified solution you should be sure to check the list of qualified kernels on. Emulex Emulex now posts their drivers in DKMS RPM format. See them on of qualified Emulex drivers. To remain an EMC qualified solution you should be sure to check the list of qualified kernels on. IEEE1394 (firewire) For those using RHEL3, the native ieee1394 driver has quite a number of instability issues. To address this, John Hull has put together a dkms-enabled update RPM for the driver based off of the updated code found in the 2.4.25 kernel.
It also includes the necessary hotplug script hooks to allow you to use your ieee1394 device with devlabel to assure device naming consistency. The RPM (it's in the tarball) can be found. Precision 370 with SATA Drives For Linux kernels 2.6.15 and higher, you can use AHCI mode and the atapiix module. The Linux kernel (atapiix module).
Systems with this controller include the PowerEdge 800, SC1425, and 420SC. Under Windows and Netware, there are special device drivers which operate in conjunction with the system BIOS to present the system SATA disks as a RAID volume.
Under Linux, the disks should be treated as two independent disks, which use the standard Linux 'MD' software RAID layer for RAID 0 or 1 operation (if you so desire). Describe how to configure the system BIOS to either disable the RAID mode, or to set up the disks as two independent RAID volumes (effectively disabling the BIOS software RAID feature).
OK, I've been trawling the forums and google for about 16 hours. I have 2x PERC 6/i Cards, With Cables, No BBU Yet (Still Coming) I have 5x 500gb drives for now.
At the moment i have installed 3x 500gb drives, and am looking to capacity expand it to the 4 and then the 5 drives(testing before i really do the big one to the 1 or 2tb drives) There is plenty of info in this forum on the Perc 5/i, Thought i'd start by listing everything i have gotten/installed/learned LSI Compatible Card Dell's Drivers From my understanding i Can't install Dell's OpenManage as i don't have a dell server. However i have the MegaRaid Storage manager from LSI installed just fine. I'm using the Dell Driver and the Latest Dell Firmware. I perhaps need to be using the LSI Driver and Firmware if using the megaraid storage manager for the Online Capacity Expansion to be available. Either that or i'm an idiot, I just can't find the button to expand the array. If anyone knows howto expand the array online, Please post info, Screenshots would be good but i'll make screenshots when i do it and post here for everyone.