Debian – MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP

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I'm just wondering whether anyone knows if I can use a Debian distro with the MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP controller. Currently at the moment LSI only supply drivers/support for RHEL/CentOS but I was wondering if anybody knew if there were other drivers so the RAID controller can work with other distributions?

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Some resources

http://www.how2forge.info/megacli-for-debian-ubuntu

http://hwraid.le-vert.net/wiki/DebianPackages

http://ftzdomino.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/some-useful-megacli-commands.html

Megacli is the management software for LSI SAS Raid controllers.

Downloading: It can be obtained from the support & downloads tab at the following url (account is required) http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9280-8e.aspx

Readme is here: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common%20Files/8.02.16_MegaCLI.txt

$ unzip -l ./8.02.16_MegaCLI.zip
Archive:  ./8.02.16_MegaCLI.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
    23852  2011-08-12 10:13   8.02.16_MegaCLI.txt
  2836620  2011-07-04 12:06   LINUX/MegaCliLin.zip
     2748  2011-07-04 12:06   LINUX/readme.txt
        0  2011-08-12 00:23   LINUX/
... ... ...
 35329519                     20 files

$ unzip -d ./megacli 8.02.16_MegaCLI.zip
Archive:  8.02.16_MegaCLI.zip
  inflating: ./megacli/8.02.16_MegaCLI.txt  
  inflating: ./megacli/LINUX/readme.txt

$ cd megacli/LINUX
Archive:  MegaCliLin.zip
  inflating: MegaCli-8.02.16-1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: Lib_Utils-1.00-09.noarch.rpm

$ apt-get install rpm2cpio

$ rpm2cpio MegaCli-8.02.16-1.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv
./opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli
./opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64
9502 blocks
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