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Installing Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA and driver mpt2sas on PE2950 running CentOS 5.5
Hi,
I have installed a Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA into a PowerEdge 2950 running CentOS 5.5 32-bit. I will use this HBA to connect to an MD3200.
I have used the DVD supplied with MD3200 and ran into problems. At the end of the installation, I have rebooted the server. After the reboot, the server was unable to mount /dev/sdb1, which is a RAID5 volume powered by the internal Perc6i HBA.
"fdisk -l /dev/sdb" shows the unique partition /dev/sdb1, but mount cannot mount it, returning an error (device busy or does not exist).
After talking to Dell Support, I'm using CentOS instead of RHEL, so I must do more on my side ;-) In addition, even if I would use RHEL 5.5, it seems that this problem is not a known issue.
Then, I looked at the downloads and found some updates to support RHEL 5.5, including driver mpt2sas and MD3200 DVD.
I downloaded both and started the installation.
I installed R266975-mpt2sas-02.00.03.00-1.tar.gz (for Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA on RHEL 5.5), which contains mpt2sas driver version 02.00.03.00. The installation runs smoothly. After installing this driver, I think I will fall into the same issue than previously, with system not able to mount /dev/sdb1.
Here is my thought: /etc/modprobe.conf is not correctly modified.
[root@stone ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 bnx2
alias eth1 bnx2
alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid_sas
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter3 usb-storage
alias scsi_hostadapter mpt2sas
# Begin Dell MD Modification
options scsi_dh_rdac blacklist="DELL:MD3000,DELL:MD3000i"
# End Dell MD Modification
Laurent CREPET
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March 1st, 2011 05:00
The issue does not seem to be linked with mpt2sas driver but with the MD3200 "Host" software that I have installed on the server. I've just faced the same issue when rebooting the server. I had to uninstall the software quickly because the server is in production (need to add the MD3200 connectivity to add storage).
Thanks for your help,
Laurent.
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Laurent CREPET.