TS430 RAID (MegaRAID SAS 9240) with opensuse linux

[sternwarte]

Hello,

does someone have experiences with the MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i under openSUSE 12.1

or any other linux system with kernel 3.1.0?

I have problems to get status information from MegaCli or MegaRaid Storage Manager.

The raid-syste was configured using webbios and the OS was installed correctly on its virtual disk (RAID-1).

I am using the megaraid_sas kernel module shipped with opensuse 12.1 (kernel 3.1.0-1.2),

but the MegaCli tool (8.02.16) reports, that it cannot find any controller:

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -adpCount
Controller Count: 0.
Exit Code: 0x00

Thanks for any hint or advice!

Kind regards,

S.

Here are some more detailed information:

modinfo megaraid_sas
filename:       /lib/modules/3.1.0-1.2-default/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.ko
description:    LSI MegaRAID SAS Driver
author:         megaraidlinux@lsi.com
version:        00.00.05.40-rc1
license:        GPL
srcversion:     B704E352D768CC41A404B1C
alias:          pci:v00001000d0000005Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001028d00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000413sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000071sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000073sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000079sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000078sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d0000007Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000060sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000411sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        
vermagic:       3.1.0-1.2-default SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           poll_mode_io:Complete cmds from IO path, (default=0) (int)
parm:           max_sectors:Maximum number of sectors per IO command (int)
parm:           msix_disableisable MSI-X interrupt handling. Default: 0 (int)

cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVD-RAM GH60N    Rev: NY03
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi4 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: LSI      Model: MR9240-8i        Rev: 2.12
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05

 lsmod    | grep mega
megaraid_sas           87123  6


ll /dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node
cr-------- 1 root root 251, 0 24. Jan 15:40 /dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node

[jamesconner · Accepted solution]

This is not a supported OS for this system. Part of the reason a lack of OS support exist due to lack of vendor support of this OS as LSI does not provide a driver for this version of SUSE. The latest they have is MegaRAID SAS Driver -SLES 11, Version 4.37.   You can find the support for this card on the following: http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9240-8i.aspx