Centos 5/5.5/6.0 and StorageWorks P2000

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Here is the output which mentions the SAS:

07:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008
PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3371
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 6000 [size=256]
Memory at c7efc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at c7e80000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c2000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data <?>
Capabilities: [a8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1
Enable-
Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=15
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP-
ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP-
ECRC- UnsupReq+ ACSVoil-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+
ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Capabilities: [138] Power Budgeting <?>

IIRC, the centos 5.5 installer should recognize it without any issues, am I
right?

Hetz


2011/5/24 Baruch Even <baruch at ev-en.org>

> On May 24, 2011 1:57 PM, "Hetz Ben Hamo" <hetzbh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to assist someone. He has an IBM Server and he's planning to
> install CentOS 5.5
> >
> > Part of the setup is a storage box (which he is not administrating) which
> is connected to the IBM with SAS cable.
> >
> > Are there any special instructions while doing the install to detect and
> use this SAS connected storage? (the box has currently OpenSuSE and when
> connecting the SAS cable, nothing showed up on /var/log/messages)..
>
> You are missing the sas controller driver probably. Try to do lspci to find
> the sas controller model and from there you'll need to find the driver.
>
> Baruch
>


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