From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: The current firmware for IBM ServRAID is 6, the driver is the latest kernel is 5.10.21. Is it possible to run the stock kernel with a mismatch like this? The only alternative I see is to recompile the kernel with the newer driver. I see this message during bootup on an IBM xSeries 345 server: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Warning: Adapter 0 Firmware Compatible Version is MR600, but should be SA510 Warning: Adapter 0 BIOS Compatible Version is MR600, but should be SA510 Warning ! ! ! ServeRAID Version Mismatch scsi0 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 5.10.21 Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.00 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: IBM Model: 32P0032a S320 1 Rev: 1 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.20-18.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system 2. 3. Actual Results: I get the error of mismatch Firmware/BIOS version. Expected Results: They should match. Additional info:
as far as I know IBM discourages mixing driver/firmware "major number" mismatches. Which btw is exactly the reason we didn't update the driver; it would require a lot of people to upgrade firmware during a security update with no way to fall back :(
That is understandable. I will see if its possible to downgrade the firmware to match the driver. Thanks.
Once the BIOS was flashed back to version 5.10.21 the current kernel works fine without complaint.
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