Hi,

I'm investigating moving some Dell 600SC machines from FreeBSD to Debian
Linux (etch) in order to reduce workload in maintaining them - FreeBSD
is a real lot of work.

However my RAID card doesn't detect any logical volumes attached to
it... even if I break the RAID, it doesn't detect any of the disks.

megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)
megaraid: 2.20.4.9 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megaraid: probe new device 0x101e:0x1960:0x1028:0x0511: bus 0:slot 7:func 0
megaraid: fw version:[6.62] bios version:[1.03]
scsi0 : LSI Logic MegaRAID driver
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 0 [Phy 0] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 1 [Phy 1] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 2 [Phy 2] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 3 [Phy 3] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 4 [virtual] for logical drives

But if I boot up FreeBSD or Windows, it works great. Suggestions?

Regards,
Peter

Managed to fix it all up... firmware downgrade. Had been looking for
this, some deep digging on Google revealed:

http://www.lsi.com/files/support/rsa/N661.zip
http://ftp.us.dell.com/ide/CERC-FW667.exe

It appears the Linux driver doesn't like the 6.62 firmware... 6.61 works
fine.

Very glad, because I've been banging my head over this issue for about 2
weeks.. and wouldn't you know, it takes a usenet post before I work out
the solution on my own

Regards,
Peter

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:26:32 +1000, criten wrote:

> Managed to fix it all up... firmware downgrade. Had been looking for
> this, some deep digging on Google revealed:
>
> http://www.lsi.com/files/support/rsa/N661.zip
> http://ftp.us.dell.com/ide/CERC-FW667.exe
>
> It appears the Linux driver doesn't like the 6.62 firmware... 6.61 works
> fine.
>
> Very glad, because I've been banging my head over this issue for about 2
> weeks.. and wouldn't you know, it takes a usenet post before I work out
> the solution on my own
>
> Regards,
> Peter

I'm glad you found a fix. For future reference, there is a mailing list
dedicated to your specific question, Linux-PowerEdge, found at

http://linux.dell.com/

under "Mailing Lists."

Lots of fun stuff about the SC series found there.

(Disclaimer, I used to work for Dell in the PE600SC days.)