Problems with PERC 5 + AMD64 + mpt-status

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

The RAID card is a PERC 5/i, these are different. There is a SAS 5/i card that does not provide RAID, this is a MPT card, the PERC is not.

-----Original Message-----
From: Santi Saez [mailto:santi at hostalia.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:43 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Cc: Boyd, Patrick
Subject: Re: Problems with PERC 5 + AMD64 + mpt-status


El 17/12/2007, a las 16:19, <Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com>  
<Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com> escribió:

> The mpt-status utility will only work for MPT cards, i.e. SAS 5/iR,  
> SAS
> 5/E, SAS 5/i, or LSI MPT BIOS cards.
>
> Dell recommends you use OMSA to monitor and configure your RAID  
> cards as
> this will work with PERC and SAS cards both.

Dear Patrick,

Yes, I have used OMSA to check RAID status already, but I want to  
test mpt-status utility.

The RAID card is a SAS 5i, so it's a MPT card.. what may be the  
problem? perhaps Debian AMD64 problem?

# lspci | grep -i dell
02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5

PCI ID = 10280015 (02:0e.0 0104: 1028:0015).

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
   Vendor: DP       Model: BACKPLANE        Rev: 1.00
   Type:   Enclosure                        ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
   Vendor: DELL     Model: PERC 5/i         Rev: 1.00
   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Thanks!!

Regards,

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