Ticket #4 (new enhancement)
Opened 3 years ago
megasr details incomplete/out of date
| Reported by: | bronaugh@… | Owned by: | gandalf |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.0.1 |
| Component: | wiki | Version: | 2.0 |
| Keywords: | debian mptsas | Cc: |
Description
Hi folks,
I've recently had the (mis-)fortune to run into an LSI 8208ELP (PCI ID: 1000:0059, vs LSI 1068E 1000:0058) integrated into a Supermicro motherboard. Learned a bunch of crap about the card etc. Turns out it works with the mptsas driver if you do the following:
echo "1000 0059" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/mptsas/new_id
Makes the mptsas driver recognize the chip as supported by the driver. Works fine with that. The only trick is getting the script into the initrd so you can have it online before pivot_root; got a script to do that, which I'll send to you if you're interested.
If you -really- want their shitty raid5, you can always use the megasr driver; someone's created a deb package for it, at mentors.debian.net /debian/pool/non-free/m/megasr/
Hope this helps / makes it into your wiki :)
David Bronaugh
