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Embedded SATA RAID Controller
Note
Step 10 Press Enter.
The prompt asks whether you have a driver disk.
Step 11 Use the arrow key to choose Yes, and then press Enter.
Step 12 Choose fd0 to indicate that you have a floppy disk with the driver on it.
Do one of the following actions:
Step 13
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•
The installer locates and loads the driver for your device. The following message appears:
Loading megasr driver...
Follow the Red Hat Linux installation procedure to complete the installation.
Step 14
Reboot the system.
Step 15
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Driver
For the specific supported OS versions, see the
server release.
This section describes the installation of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server driver on a system with the
embedded MegaRAID stack.
Step 1 Create a RAID drive group using the LSI SWRAID Configuration utility before you install this driver
for the OS. Launch this utility by pressing Ctrl-M when
Step 2 Prepare the dud.img file using one of the following methods:
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Extract the dud.img file:
Step 3
a.
b.
c.
Step 4 Start the Linux driver installation using one of the following methods:
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The noprobe values depend on the number of drives. For example, to install RHEL 5.7 on a
RAID 5 configuration with three drives, enter
Linux dd blacklist=isci blacklist=ahci noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3
If you prepared the IMG file on a physical diskette in
target server and then insert the disk in the A:/ drive and press Enter.
If you mapped the IMG file as a virtual floppy in
To install from a physical disk, use one of the procedures in
For Linux, page C-15.
Then return to Step 4 of this procedure.
To install from a virtual floppy disk, download and save the Cisco UCS C-Series drivers' ISO, as
described in Downloading the LSI MegaSR Drivers, page
Then continue with the next step.
Burn the ISO image to a disc.
Browse the contents of the drivers folders to the location of the embedded MegaRAID drivers:
/<OS>/Storage/Intel/C600/
Copy the dud-<
driver version
Step
Step 5, choose the location of the virtual floppy.
Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix
LSI SWRAID
>.img file to a temporary location on your workstation.
Appendix C RAID Controller Considerations
2, connect an external disk drive to the
is shown during the BIOS POST.
Preparing Physical Installation Disks
C-12.
for your
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