megaraid_sas driver version 3.10<->3.13

Macka Radek macka at cncz.cz
Mon Mar 10 03:53:13 CDT 2008


Hi all,

> >    The current driver version 00.00.03.10 (megaraid_sas) 
> >    is older than the required driver version 00.00.03.13 
> >    (megaraid_sas) for a controller of model 0x1F03: 
> >    Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated)

	Maybe somebody like me should find this usefull in first time
updating megaraid_sas module via DKMS on debian systems:
1) download and install "ported" .deb package version of DKMS from
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/debian/ (on etch I use
dkms_2.0.17.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb without any problems) 
* do not try to alien package for SuSE and RH systems - I was not
succesfull, some handmade trick probably needs to be done there!!! But
it`s up to you ;-)
2) download latest driver from dell pages (for example
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.3/pe2950/rh50_64/sas_raid/r16
9676/ ) and use alien (eg. "alien --scripts
megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.16-1.noarch.rpm") to generate .deb package
3) be sure your actual kernel is using megaraid_sas driver as module and
is not compiled directly into kernel - then install alienized package,
check version by "modinfo megaraid_sas" & reboot
4) enjoy speed of new driver :-)

Regards
/Radek



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