PowerEdge 1850, PERC 4e/Si not visible in OMSA

[Johan Sjöberg]

It works on 2.6.24 (Debian etchnhalf, Ubuntu 8.04), so it seems the problem appeared sometime between 2.6.24 and 2.6.26.

 

/Johan

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Johan Sjöberg
Sent: den 29 april 2009 10:57
To: Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
Subject: RE: PowerEdge 1850, PERC 4e/Si not visible in OMSA

 

I had the same problem with Debian Lenny, and Ubuntu 8.10, and did some more testing.

It seems to be related to kernel version. OMSA does not detect the PERC4 on Fedora 10 (2.6.27) either. Maybe Dell will fix it now that SLES 11 (2.6.27) is out? Or is it maybe a problem with the kernel, that makes it impossible?

 

/Johan

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Javier Romero Muñoz
Sent: den 29 april 2009 10:33
To: Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
Subject: RE: PowerEdge 1850, PERC 4e/Si not visible in OMSA

 

Hi

 

The problem is the kernel and Lenny

 

I have the same hardware and with 2.6.18-6-686 debian standard kernel, it works OMSA 5.5

 

The same hardware and software, with 2.6.26-2-686 kernel it doesn't work

 

Any idea?

 

Any solution?

 

Thanks

 

De: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] En nombre de Dean Manners
Enviado el: miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009 10:14
Para: Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
Asunto: PowerEdge 1850, PERC 4e/Si not visible in OMSA

 

Hey guys, wondering if anyone has come across this one.

 

Recycling a retired-from-service PE1850 with a PERC4 4e/Si scsi RAID card.  The raid is all good, operating system (Debian) is running fine, and otherwise everythings koshure.  However OMSA does not recognize that there is a PERC card in the chassis, so we are unable to monitor storage/RAID.

 

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# omreport storage controller

No controllers found

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Logging in via the LSI/RAID utility at boot, everything looks normal even performed a drive rebuild to really test things.  But alas, OMSA doesn't see the controller.

 

System is running: 

- Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

- 2.6.26-2 kernel

- OMSA 5.5.0 (a sara.nl build)

- Latest Dell supplied firmware for the PERC 4e/Si card (5B2D, A19)

 

Whats confusing about this, is that Im quite sure this machine (running an older Debian, an older PERC firmware, and older OMSA) did used to operate fine with OMSA/storage.  All I can think on trying is going back to an older PERC firmware to see if theres something in that (not that I would want to run the older firmware long term).

 

Any ideas ?

 

 

 

Regards
__________________________________________ 
Dean Manners

 

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