PERC6/i not found by OMSA 5.4 after upgrade from PERC5/i

[Philip Tait]

Patrick,

Thanks for the clue - updating to OMSA 5.5 solved the problem.

Philip

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:19 -0600, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> My guess is that the sysfs attributes have changed and the fields that
> OMSA depends on to find the controller don't work anymore.
> 
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> Subject: PERC6/i not found by OMSA 5.4 after upgrade from PERC5/i
> 
> I changed from a PERC5/i to a PERC6/i on a Poweredge 2900. The existing
> RAID 5 array is functioning perfectly, but OMSA 5.4 does not find the
> new storage controller. 
> 
> - I see from the list archives that PERC6/i support was added to OMSA
> 5.3.
> 
> - The GUI is showing the status of all the other subsystems.
> 
> - I tried 'omconfig storage controller action=globalrescan', but
> 'omreport storage controller' still reports 'No controllers found'.
> 
> - I ran 'srvadmin-services.sh start' and got 'Starting mptctl: Waiting
> for mptctl driver registration to complete: done'. And 'dmesg' output
> shows:
> 
> Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.05
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation
> Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver 3.04.05
> mptctl: Registered with Fusion MPT base driver
> mptctl: /dev/mptctl @ (major,minor=10,220)
> 
> However, 'mpt-status' reports 'ioctl: No such device'.
> 
> OS version is openSUSE 11.0. I know this is "unsupported", but
> troubleshooting clues would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philip J. Tait
> http://subarutelescope.org
> 
> 
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