Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 10 SP1 changes of fusion (LSI) driver

From: Rasmus Plewe (rplewe_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 13:11:18 CEST


Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:11:18 +0200
From: Rasmus Plewe <rplewe@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20070716111118.GC7710@coredump.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 10 SP1 changes of fusion (LSI) driver

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:32:56PM +0200, matilda matilda wrote:
>
> does anybody know how much and what changed in the fusion (LSI) driver
> of SLES 10 SP1, especially in the mptsas driver?
>
> Reason: SAS-Storage cabinet DS3200 attached to a LSI-based SAS-HBA showed
> severald scsi-devices per physical LUN.
> The RDAC-driver from LSI on top of the regular MSI drivers created the real
> mountable virtual scsi devices, which could be used to put filesystems on.
>
> After update to SP1 I have a totally different picture. The many scsi devices
> are not shown anymore.
> RDAC-driver can not be compiled, because header file scsi/scsi_request.h
> is missing in the kernel sources.
>
> So, has anybody some knowledge about or experiences with that?

Please use multipath-tools. RDAC is a third-party driver from LSI and
not supported by SUSE/Novell. Contact LSI for an update.

It might be that you have to edit /etc/multipath.conf to get the DS3200
working properly.

Regards,
         Rasmus

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