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Appendix C RAID Controller Considerations
Embedded MegaRAID Controller
Note
The
noprobe
values depend on the number of drives. For example, to install RHEL 5.7 on a
RAID 5 configuration with three drives, enter:
Linux dd blacklist=isci blacklist=ahci noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3
Step 10
Press Enter.
The prompt asks whether you have a driver disk.
Step 11
Use the arrow key to select
Yes
, and then press
Enter
.
Step 12
Select
fd0
to indicate that you have a floppy diskette with the driver on it.
Step 13
Do one of the following actions:
•
If you prepared the IMG file on a physical diskette in
: Connect an external USB diskette drive
to the target server and then insert the diskette in the A:/ drive and press
Enter
.
•
If you mapped the IMG file as a virtual floppy in
: Select the location of the virtual floppy.
The installer locates and loads the driver for your device. The following message appears:
Loading megasr driver...
Step 14
Follow the Red Hat Linux installation procedure to complete the installation.
Step 15
Reboot the system.
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Driver
For the specific supported OS versions, see the
Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix
server release.
This section describes the installation of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server driver on a system with the
embedded MegaRAID stack.
Us e the following procedure to install the SLES drivers.
Step 1
Create a RAID drive group using the LSI SWRAID Configuration utility before you install this driver
for the OS. Launch this utility by pressing
Ctrl+M
when LSI SWRAID is shown during BIOS post.
Step 2
Prepare the dud.img file using one of the following methods:
•
To install from a physical diskette: Use one of the procedures in
Preparing Physical Installation
Diskettes For Linux, page C-15
.
Then return to
of this procedure.
•
To install from a virtual floppy disk: Download and save the Cisco UCS C-Series drivers ISO, as
described in
Downloading the LSI MegaSR Drivers, page C-13
.
Then continue with the next step.
Step 3
Extract the dud.img file:
a.
Burn the ISO image to a disc.
b.
Browse the contents of the drivers folders to the location of the embedded MegaRAID drivers:
/<OS>/Storage/Intel/C600/
c.
Copy the dud-<
driver version
>.img file to a temporary location on your workstation.
Step 4
Start the Linux driver installation using one of the following methods:
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