Driver Does Not Auto-Build Into A New Kernel; Unable To Register Scsi Device Error Message; Disk Carrier Led Indicators - Dell PowerEdge H730P User Manual

Driver Does Not Auto-Build Into A New Kernel

Issue: Driver does not auto-build into a new kernel after customer updates.
Corrective This error is a generic problem for Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) and
Action: applies to all DKMS-enabled driver packages. This issue occurs when you perform
the following steps:
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The driver running in the new kernel is the native driver of the new kernel. The
driver package you installed previously in the new kernel does not take effect in the
new kernel:
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Unable To Register SCSI Device Error Message

Error:
smartd[smartd[2338] Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode
page, err=-5, skip device smartd[2338] Unable to register SCSI
device /dev/sda at line 1 of file /etc/smartd.conf.
Corrective This is a known issue. An unsupported command is entered through the user
Action: application. User applications attempt to direct Command Descriptor Blocks to
RAID volumes. The error message does not affect the feature functionality. The
Mode Sense/Select command is supported by firmware on the controller.
However, the Linux kernel daemon issues the command to the virtual disk instead
of to the driver IOCTL node. This action is not supported.

Disk Carrier LED Indicators

The LED on the physical disk carrier indicates the state of each physical disk. Each disk carrier in your
enclosure has two LEDs: an activity LED (green) and a status LED (bicolor, green/amber). The activity LED
is active whenever a disk is being accessed while the status LED indicates when a disk is being spun up, is
rebuilding, or is in a fault state.
Install a DKMS-enabled driver package.
Run up2date or a similar tool to upgrade the kernel to the latest version.
Reboot to the new kernel.
Type: dkms build –m <module_name> –v <module version> –k
<kernel version>.
Type: dkms install –m <module_name> –v <module version> –k
<kernel version>.
Type the following command to check whether the driver is successfully
installed in the new kernel: DKMS.
The following details appear:
<driver name>, <driver version>, <new kernel version>:
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