[elrepo] FW: kernel module for ServeRaid 7k (IBM/adaptec) [SOLVED]

[David Carvalho]

Hello! Thanks to the following e-mail I was able to perform an installation of Oracle Linux 8 on an IBM old server with ServeRaid 7k.

After many difficulties (non bootable USB flash, bootable on other computers, using Rufus, Unetbootin, etc, than it booted    ??), I was able to boot a OL 8.3 network installation image. Then, I selected the network repository for the latest (8.7) Oracle Linux and installed.

I can not thank these guys enough.

 

After browsing through EL7 repo, I’ve even found a “dd-cciss” which I believe will work on an older HP DL380 G4 with smartarray 6i!

 

Out of curiosity, is there any documentation to understand the process of creating a diver such as this one?

Thank you so much once again!

Please let me know if there is a place where I can write some good words about this project 😉

Kind regards.

Dave

 

 

 

 

From: Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> 
Sent: 05 March 2023 21:46
To: david <david at di.ubi.pt>
Subject: Re: [elrepo] kernel module for ServeRaid 7k (IBM/adaptec)

 

You can download this one:

 

http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-ips-7.12.05-1.el8_7.elrepo.iso

 

Akemi

 

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:10 PM Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org <mailto:toracat at elrepo.org> > wrote:

Hi Dave,

The following DUD iso file is currently syncing to the mirror sites:

dd-ips-7.12.05-1.el8_7.elrepo.iso

It's in the elrepo/dud/el8/x86_64/ directory. Please test if you can install EL 8.7 using this image.

Akemi

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:43 PM david <david at di.ubi.pt <mailto:david at di.ubi.pt> > wrote:

Hi.
EL-8 would be great!
Thank you so much!
regards
Dave

On 2023-03-03 18:20, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> Got it.
> 
> Since EL-7 will be EOL'd in a little over a year, I suppose you'd want
> to go for EL-8. We will try and see if we can provide the DUD.
> 
> Akemi
> 
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 10:12 AM David Carvalho <david at di.ubi.pt <mailto:david at di.ubi.pt> >
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, and thanks for the reply.
>> 
>> 08:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Adaptec ServeRAID Controller
>> [9005:0250] (rev 07)
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> From: Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org <mailto:toracat at elrepo.org> >
>> Sent: 03 March 2023 17:41
>> To: David Carvalho <david at di.ubi.pt <mailto:david at di.ubi.pt> >; EL Repo General Mailing List
>> <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org <mailto:elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> >
>> Subject: Re: [elrepo] kernel module for ServeRaid 7k (IBM/adaptec)
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 8:39 AM David Carvalho via elrepo
>> <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org <mailto:elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> > wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> Maybe someone can help me with this.
>>> 
>>> I was using Oracle Linux 6 on an old server with a ServRaid 7k
>>> controller. When trying to install OL7 or OL8, the drives are not
>>> recognized. I know it was using IPS kernel module on OL6. I went
>>> to elrepo.org <http://elrepo.org>  [1] to search for a suitable driver, but could not
>>> find anything appropriate. There are much more options for OL8.
>>> Does anyone know if any of those drivers allow the installation?
>>> In the meantime I've reinstalled oracle linux 6.5 but I don't know
>>> how to build/extract ips.ko or some source rpm to load into the
>>> installer. I've queried all installed packages but none provides
>>> information about this module and controller.
>>> 
>>> How can I install OL7 or 8 into this server?
>>> 
>>> Thanks and regards.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>> 
>> You would need  a DUD image for the ips kernel module for the
>> installation.
>> 
>> What is the device ID [xxxx:yyyy] (shown by "lspci -nn") ?
>> 
>> Akemi
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://elrepo.org

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