Description of problem: It is not possible to install OS, the system hangs on loading driver of Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS18E. In RHEL5Server release notes, the problem with megaraid driver was mentioned " driver must be set to operate in "Mass Storage" emulation mode", but the problem appeared to find this <emulation>. There is no such thing in properties, see http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcsas18e/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 5 Server (ISOs downloaded from RHN) with kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 How reproducible: 1 variant: Take server with SAS SCSI disks on SRCSAS18E controller, start the default installation. 2: I have installed on a "brother" server with another card MegaRAID SAS 8408E http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sas/megaraid_sas_8408e/index.html?remote=1&locale=EN and after successful install of OS, HDD was moved to the server with the card SRCSAS18E. (see attached picture) 3: ... I compiled a driver from sources, replaced the megaraid_sas driver as desribed in this artilce http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy-Megaraid-Drivers.html and tried again => same result - it hangs on loading a driver. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: System cannot load megaraid_sas driver. Expected results: megasas driver loads successfully on systems with Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS18E Additional info: I do not know what to do... Intel did not release the driver for RHEL5 only for RHEL4 (BTW: kernel goes to panic on loading driver of this controller...)
Created attachment 158773 [details] screen shot of RHEL 5 driver loading... hang
You are using very old driver Version 3.05. Can you try 4.x driver? Thx
No reply. Assuming this is resolved. Closing.