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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000738 | channel: elrepo/el7 | --kernel--request-for-enhancement-- | public | 2017-05-13 18:52 | 2021-04-16 01:27 |
| Reporter | PoMec | Assigned To | toracat | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Summary | 0000738: I would like to install Centos 7 on a system that has SCSI drives | ||||
| Description | The installation disc of Centos 6 does not recognize SCSI drives which prevented my being able to install Centos 6 and I had to install Centos 5. Since Centos 5 is now not being supported it would be nice to be able to install Centos 7 on this system. One subscriber to the Centos user's list suggested that I request that you generate a driver disk that I can use to install Centos 7. Would that be possible ? | ||||
| Additional Information | My system is as the following : processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2800.246 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr bogomips : 5600.49 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: System Information Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: X6DH8 Version: 0123456789 Serial Number: 0123456789 UUID: 80F1E964-DC63-0010-89D5-0030482EC1A6 Wake-up Type: Power Switch Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: X6DH8 Version: PCB Version Serial Number: 0123456789 Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes Chassis Information Manufacturer: Supermicro Type: Other Lock: Not Present Version: 0123456789 Serial Number: 0123456789 Asset Tag: Boot-up State: Safe Power Supply State: Safe Thermal State: Safe Security Status: None OEM Information: 0x00001234 | ||||
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That was me on the CentOS mailing list: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-April/164551.html The driver for your device LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID [1000:1960] is disabled in the CentOS kernel (C6 and C7). Turns out your device is still not supported even if CONFIG_MEGARAID_LEGACY is enabled in the EL7 kernel. See: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MEGARAID_LEGACY.html [1000:1960] is only in kernel 2.6.9–2.6.15. In other word, this device has been deprecated in the kernel. |
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### ELRepo Project Internal ### Ah, I was looking on Duo2 which is RHEL6 and the request is for RHEL7 (or clone). |
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### ELRepo Project Internal ### Looking at Duo1 (from Duo2) -- [Duo2 tmp]$ sudo su - [Duo2 ~]# mount -r -t xfs /dev/sda5 /mnt [Duo2 ~]# find /mnt/lib/modules -type f -name megaraid_mbox.ko | sort /mnt/lib/modules/4.11.1-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.ko /mnt/lib/modules/4.4.68-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.ko [Duo2 ~]# for M in $(find /mnt/lib/modules -type f -name megaraid_mbox.ko | sort); do echo $M; modinfo -F alias $M | grep 1000 | grep 1960; done /mnt/lib/modules/4.11.1-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.ko pci:v00001000d00001960sv*sd*bc*sc*i* pci:v00001000d00001960sv00001028sd00000518bc*sc*i* pci:v00001000d00001960sv00001028sd00000520bc*sc*i* /mnt/lib/modules/4.4.68-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.ko pci:v00001000d00001960sv*sd*bc*sc*i* pci:v00001000d00001960sv00001028sd00000518bc*sc*i* pci:v00001000d00001960sv00001028sd00000520bc*sc*i* [Duo2 ~]# sync [Duo2 ~]# umount /dev/sda5 [Duo2 ~]# mount -r -t xfs /dev/sda1 /mnt [Duo2 ~]# grep -i megaraid_m /mnt/config* /mnt/config-4.11.1-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64:CONFIG_MEGARAID_MM=m /mnt/config-4.11.1-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64:CONFIG_MEGARAID_MAILBOX=m /mnt/config-4.4.68-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64:CONFIG_MEGARAID_MM=m /mnt/config-4.4.68-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64:CONFIG_MEGARAID_MAILBOX=m [Duo2 ~]# |
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I see that device [1000:1960] is supported by the megaraid_mbox driver. This is enabled in our kernel-lt/ml. http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MEGARAID_MAILBOX.html lkddb pci 1000 1960 ... in 2.6.16–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.11, 4.12-rc+HEAD |
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@PoMec As you can see in earlier notes here, the controller with your device ID [1000:1960] seems to be supported by the megaraid_mbox driver. Now, this driver is enabled in EL6 (therefore CentOS 6) but not in EL7. You wrote in your post on the CentOS mailing list that you tried installing CentOS 6 but it did not work. [quote] about 4 years ago, I tried to install CentOS 6 on a Supermicro server with SCSI drives using a LSI raid system. I could never figure out or find a way to make the installation disc of Centos 6 identify the SCSI drives. The installation disc for Centos 5 identified the SCSI drives without a problem. I finally gave up on Centos 6 and installed Centos 5 and the system has worked very well for the last 4 years" [/quote] If that is the case, then enabling MEGARAID_MAILBOX in EL7 would not help. Can you confirm that CentOS 6 install media did not recognize your LSI card? |
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Closing due to inactivity. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2017-05-13 18:52 | PoMec | New Issue | |
| 2017-05-13 18:52 | PoMec | Status | new => assigned |
| 2017-05-13 18:52 | PoMec | Assigned To | => toracat |
| 2017-05-16 11:02 | burakkucat | Project | channel: kernel/el7 => channel: elrepo/el7 |
| 2017-05-16 18:05 | toracat | Note Added: 0005188 | |
| 2017-05-17 10:45 | burakkucat | Note Added: 0005196 | |
| 2017-05-17 10:57 | burakkucat | Note Added: 0005197 | |
| 2017-05-17 12:07 | toracat | Relationship added | related to 0000570 |
| 2017-05-17 12:13 | toracat | Note Added: 0005198 | |
| 2017-05-18 23:47 | toracat | Note Added: 0005211 | |
| 2017-05-19 07:19 | toracat | Status | assigned => feedback |
| 2021-04-16 01:27 | toracat | Status | feedback => closed |
| 2021-04-16 01:27 | toracat | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2021-04-16 01:27 | toracat | Note Added: 0007556 |
