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Support for Dell H200/H700/H800 SAS cards is missing in hardy (mpt2sas)

Bug #611844 reported by Michael Jeanson on 2010-07-30

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	Hardy	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

It's not possible to install Hardy 8.04 on a Dell PowerEdge Rxxx with a SAS H200/H700/H800 RAID controller because of the missing mpt2sas module. It was introduced in the 2.6.30 if I'm correct but there is also a standalone source archive for RHEL 5.5 kernel. I tried compiling it against hardy's 2.6.24 without success.

If someone from the kernel team could have a look, it would be useful to anyone wanting to deploy hardy on newer Dell servers.

Thanks.

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Michael Jeanson (mjeanson) wrote on 2010-07-30:

build-2.6.24.patch Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

I got it working by building the module from the following source archive :

http://ftp.dell.com/sas-raid/R266980-mpt2sas-02.00.03.00-1.tar.gz

I had to patch the source with the attached patch to build against the 2.6.24

Stéphane Graber (stgraber) on 2010-07-30

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Hardy):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Laurence Mayer (laurence-istraresearch) wrote on 2010-08-11:

Hi Michael,
I have the same problem and would appreciate if you could post more details as how you got it working.

I am not yet familiar with patching source etc.

Thanks in advance

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-08-11

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Laurence Mayer (laurence-istraresearch) wrote on 2010-08-11:

I worked out the patching, but there is no way to actually install 8.04, correct?

kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor) on 2010-08-11

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Michael Jeanson (mjeanson) wrote on 2010-08-16:

Hi Laurence,

I managed to build a custom network installer containing the patched module and install the server using that. If you want to try it, download the latest netboot.tar.gz and replace the initrd by this one : http://people.rlnx.com/~mjeanson/initrd.gz It's for amd64

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Michael Jeanson (mjeanson) wrote on 2010-11-23:

The driver is in mainline and should be backportable :

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=drivers/scsi/mpt2sas;h=c052262c654073aca21ec357b16492bf8e3e623a;hb=HEAD

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote on 2011-07-26:

I'm marking the actively developed linux task (eg currently Oneiric) as Fix Released as this driver is included there. The Hardy nomination remains open.

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you're choosing to install Hardy vs Lucid (newer LTS release). Lucid has support for this driver.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Hardy):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Michael Jeanson (mjeanson) wrote on 2011-07-26:

Yes, our environment is based on openvz which is only supported in hardy. We are pretty much stuck with hardy until there is a mature container implementation in an LTS.

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Alejandro Escobar (alejandroed) wrote on 2011-12-15:

I'm trying to boot the Michael's initrd.gz with the latest amd64 Ubuntu Hardy netboot but when kernel loads it freeze in the language selection. Any ideas?

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Julian Wiedmann (jwiedmann) wrote on 2013-08-18:

This release has reached end-of-life [0].

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases