Enabling Sata Mode; Installing Lsi Megasr Drivers For Windows And Linux; Downloading The Megasr Drivers - Cisco UCS B200 M5 Installation And Service Note

Enabling SATA Mode

Enabling SATA Mode
Perform this procedure in Cisco UCS Manager.
Procedure
Step 1 Set the SATA mode.
a) To change the M.2 state for the sSATA controller, change it in the storage sub-profile of the service profile
that is assigned to the blade server. Choices are:
Step 2 Press F10 to save your changes and exit.

Installing LSI MegaSR Drivers For Windows and Linux

The required drivers for this controller are already installed and ready to use. However, if you will use
Note
this controller with Windows or Linux, you must download and install additional drivers for those operating
systems.
This section explains how to install the LSI MegaSR drivers for the following supported operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows Server
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
For the specific supported OS versions, see the
release.

Downloading the MegaSR Drivers

The MegaSR drivers are included in the B-Series driver ISO for your server and OS.
Procedure
Step 1 Find the drivers ISO file download for your server online and download it to a temporary location on your
workstation:
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• LSI SW RAID SWR—Enable the embedded sSATA RAID controller for control of internal SATA
M.2 drives.
• AHCI—Enable control of the internal SATA M.2 drives by AHCI through your OS rather than the
embedded RAID controller.
• Disabled—Disable the embedded sSATA RAID controller.
Hardware and Software Compatibility Matrix
Servicing a Blade Server
for your server