Hello, I have a SuperMicro 7045A-T with a 4 SAS drives connected to an on board LSI 1068e. The only way I have found to install linux to see these drives is to use either RHEL or SLES and LSI's proprietary mesgasr driver. Apparently the driver will only work with 2.6.19 and below. The driver: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/Driver/1068/SR/Linux/09.32_RedHat5.zip Is this still the case? I see mention of 1068e in fusion drivers mptbase and mptsas but the/my usual distros don't pick up the drives. Is it possible that because the chip is labelled: 'Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Unknown device a480' that installers can't cope? Thanks for any help, Owen. This is the relevant lspci -vv for the chip: 02:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 8208ELP/8208ELP (rev 08) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Unknown device a480 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR+ <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at d3310000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Region 3: Memory at d3300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [68] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 4096 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk- ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x4, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [98] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1 Vector table: BAR=1 offset=00002000 PBA: BAR=1 offset=00003000 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?> -- Owen Williams williams@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
