Appendix C
RAID Controller Considerations
Linux Driver Installation
This section explains the steps to install the embedded MegaRAID device driver in a Red Hat Enterprise
Linux installation or a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server installation.
This section contains the following topics:
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Obtaining the Driver Image File
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Linux driver is offered in the form of dud-[
embedded MegaRAID stack.
Note
The LSI MegaSR drivers that Cisco provides for Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux are for the original GA
versions of those distributions. The drivers do not support updates to those OS kernels.
Preparing Physical Installation Disks For Linux
This section describes how to prepare physical Linux installation disks from the driver image files, using
either the Windows operating system or the Linux operating system.
Note
The driver image is too large for a floppy disk, so use a USB thumb drive instead.
Note
Alternatively, you can mount the dud.img file as a virtual floppy disk, as described in the installation
procedures.
Preparing Physical Installation Disks with the Windows Operating System
Under Windows, you can use the RaWrite floppy image-writer utility to create disk images from image
files.
Download the Cisco UCS C-Series drivers ISO, as described in
Step 1
page C-16
Step 2
Extract the dud.img file:
a.
b.
c.
Copy the driver update disk image dud-[driver version].img and your file raw write.exe to a directory.
Step 3
OL-32473-01
Obtaining the Driver Image File, page C-19
Preparing Physical Installation Disks For Linux, page C-19
Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver, page C-21
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Driver, page C-22
Downloading the LSI MegaSR Drivers, page C-16
and save it to your Windows system that has a diskette drive.
Burn the ISO image to a disc.
Browse the contents of the drivers folders to the location of the embedded MegaRAID drivers:
/<OS>/Storage/Intel/C600/
Expand the Zip file, which contains the folder with the driver files.
for instructions on obtaining the drivers. The
].img, which is the boot image for the
driver version
Downloading the LSI MegaSR Drivers,
Cisco UCS C220 M4 Server Installation and Service Guide
Embedded SATA RAID Controllers
C-19