LSI SAS 1068e RAID driver for Debian won't load

LSI SAS 1068e RAID driver for Debian won't load

[AlphaGJohn]

Hi Folks,

Any suggestions on this one?

2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:50:19 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Running on a Supermicro *H8DM3-2 motherboard (with on-board *LSI SAS1068E
Controller)

lspci reports the controller as:
02:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Unknown device
0059 (rev 04)

LSI provides a source tar ball (good for them!) and although the driver
source apparently compiled successfully, it would not load.

/var/log/kern.log says:
mptbase: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
Fusion MPT base driver 4.00.21.00
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Corporation
mptsas: Unknown symbol scsi_is_sas_phy_local
mptsas: Unknown symbol scsi_is_sas_phy_local
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 4.00.21.00
Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver 4.00.21.00
mptctl: Registered with Fusion MPT base driver
mptctl: /dev/mptctl @ (major,minor=10,220)
mptsas: Unknown symbol scsi_is_sas_phy_local
mptctl: Deregistered /dev/mptctl @ (major,minor=10,220)

Any suggestions most appreciated.

(A side note: The mptsas driver supplied with the etch release loads fine,
but, apparently doesn't support the controller:
modinfo mptsas
suggests it does not support the model 0059. It lists 0050, 0054, 0056,
0058, & 0062. 
I have limited experience with this kind of thing, so I don't know what the
different "names" for the controller signifies--if anything.)

Thanks!

John

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RE: LSI SAS 1068e RAID driver for Debian won't load

[Moore, Eric]

On Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:40 PM,  AlphaGJohn wrote:
> lspci reports the controller as:
> 02:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 
> Unknown device
> 0059 (rev 04)
> 

0x59 device id is owned  by the megaraid driver called megasr, meaning
software raid.    You will need to contact the megaraid team to obtain
the proper drivers.  This controller is not support by mptsas driver, as
the bios/firmware that ships with this 0x59 controller will corrupt you
disk with metadata as it will by default its creating a raid volume.
The mptsas driver works with the ids you noted before, 50, 54, 56, 58,
and 62. 

Eric