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AppendixC RAID Controller Considerations
Embedded RAID Controller
Note 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
Step10 Press Enter.
The prompt asks whether you have a driver disk.
Step11 Use the arrow key to select Yes, and then press Enter.
Step12 Select fd0 to indicate that you have a floppy diskette with the driver on it.
Step13 Do one of the following actions:
•If you prepared the IMG file on a physical diskette in Step2: Connect an external USB diskette drive
to the target server and then insert the diskette in the A:/ drive and press Enter.
•If you mapped the IMG file as a virtual floppy in Step5: Select the locatio n of the virtual floppy.
The installer locates and loads the driver for your device. The following message appears:
Loading megasr driver...
Step14 Follow the Red Hat Linux installation procedure to complete the installation.
Step15 Reboot the system.
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Driver
For the specific supported OS versions, see the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix for your
server release.
This section describes the installation of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server driver on a system with the
embedded MegaRAID stack.
Us e the following procedure to install the SLES drivers.
Step1 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 LSI SWRAID is shown during BIOS post.
Step2 Prepare the dud.img file using one of the following methods:
•To install from a physical diskette: Use one of the procedures in Preparing Physical Installation
Diskettes For Linux, page C-13.
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, pageC-10.
Then continue with the next step.
Step3 Extract the dud.img file:
a. Burn the ISO image to a disc.
b. Browse the contents of the drivers folders to the location of the embedded MegaRAID drivers:
/<OS>/Storage/Intel/C600/
c. Copy the dud-<driver version>.img file to a temporary location on your workstation.
Step4 Start the Linux driver installation using one of the following methods: