megaraid_sas driver version 3.10<->3.13

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

The reasoning behind OMSA flagging firmware or driver warnings is that
for a full set of functionality in OMSA you need the new driver and
firmware or in some cases Dell just highly recommends updating to the
driver and firmware in question.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of wolf2k5
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:00 PM
To: Troels Arvin
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: megaraid_sas driver version 3.10<->3.13

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Troels Arvin <troels at arvin.dk> wrote:
>  After the upgrade, Dell OpenManage Server Administrator's web
interface
>  reports this in the alert log for a server which I operate (PE 2950):
>
>    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)
>
>  I would very much like to simply keep using the operating system's
built-
>  in drivers (RHEL 5 with all updates).

I'm also a few PE1950s with RHEL5.1 with the latest updates and got
that warning message in OpenManage 5.3.

So far the servers seem to be running fine and I'd prefer to stick to
the RH drivers unless there is a real reason to upgrade to the newer
driver from Dell.

Does anybody know the the exact reason why OM is reporting that
warning? Does the older driver has serious bugs (crash, data loss,
etc.)?

Thanks.

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