Topic: Perc H200 on V7.5.1

[johnmelody]

Hi,

Has anyone managed to configure a Poweredge R410 with a PERC H200 SAS raid controller.
I have one and the drives are not recognised.

I loaded V8.0 Beta 6 and all works fine, however, as it is a production system I would prefer to stay with V7.5.1.

I tried to load the driver I downloaded from DELL but when the installation procedure asks you
to press F2 and load the media on /dev/scd0 ( which I presume is the CD drive ) - I cannot get it to eject the SME V7.5.1 installation CD.

Any help appreciated on the best way to get sorted.

thanks.

John.

 

[johnmelody]

Hi.

I did some more work and made a bit of progress.

I put the downloaded driver from DELL on a USB flash drive "mpt2sasbtm-02.15.00.00-1-rhel4.8.i686.dd" and I rebooted the machine with
the flash drive inserted and the V7.5.1 boot disk.

I entered "sme dd" at the boot options and it asked me for, and located, the above driver on the flash drive.

Everything was going well - I had to then select the ata_piix driver for it to see the CDROM with the V7.5.1 CD and that all worked well
but alas when it got to the point of seeing the disks with my new driver it did not work and it says it found no drives.

Is there anything else I can try ?

thanks for any help,
John.

[Brave Dave]

Hi John

I don't have an answer, but this controller is on all the new Dell Servers so if you have success please update things

I found on the last new Dell I had to use SME8 - but not because of a RAID Controller issue.

On higher end servers I had ignored this controller as a candidate going for the H700 and H800 options - because the H200 has no associated cache memory, therefore what is the advantage of the H200 over the built in Linux Raid, therefore why not disable it.

I'm interested in what you find.