I have Supermicro server with XDT3 motherboard. Also I have Intel SASMF8I Raid controller.
Is there any ability to install 42.2 on this hardware raid?
Drivers from Intel site are not suitable. Opensuse doesnt see it during installation and
offer md driver. By the way, it destroys volume which I configured in Intel Raid utility
right after installation start (before disk partitioning dialog). By the way, md see which
RAID (5 or 10) I’ve configured in Intel utility.
I have used a hardware raid controller in the past but have always found that the manufacturers provide a linux driver so I used the add option during install. At the time the drivers were on a floppy. Guess that they would need to be on a usb stick now. Later the install recognised the controller so I didn’t need to do anything, on several different makes actually.
There is a guide here. It mentions adding drivers some way down.
There seems to be lots of things for your controller and suse here. However in the past I have found some manufacturers may have more than one page on a product.
These drivers are not suitable for 42.2. It doesnt update it during install. Last supported version is SLES11SP3. There are no drivers for SLES12SP1 even.
Old controller - no support ((
There are some server people about on LinuxQuestions org. It might be worth asking there.
I run a soft raid for my /home. One problem I had when I insalled leap was that I imported my partitioning and it totally ignored that. My partitioning is a bit unusual.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
md0 9:0 0 931.5G 0 raid1 /home
├─sdc1 8:33 0 931.5G 0 part
│ └─sdc 8:32 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 1 931.5G 0 part
└─sdd 8:48 1 931.5G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 195M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda 8:0 0 119.2G 0 disk
sda2 8:2 0 119.1G 0 part /
└─sda 8:0 0 119.2G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 10G 0 part
└─sdb 8:16 0 232.9G 0 disk
sdb2 8:18 0 10G 0 part /var
└─sdb 8:16 0 232.9G 0 disk
sdb3 8:19 0 10G 0 part /tmp
└─sdb 8:16 0 232.9G 0 disk
sdb4 8:20 0 202.9G 0 part /home/home2
└─sdb 8:16 0 232.9G 0 disk
home2 is just some spare space.
I use a flash drive for software and try to avoid writing to it other than updates. It stuck my /home on that but did import the rest. Moving that to where it should be was ‘fun’.
If you can add another disk somehow and install onto that it might work out if it’s the same problem as I had. The kernel is usually reckoned to be pretty good at making use of old hardware so there may be two options there - try installing with the old driver or just wait and see if the kernel recognises it. It’s boot up message log will complain if it doesn’t.
If that approach works a bug report is in order. I didn’t as I could see that it would need to read date from my disks to use the soft raid but on the other hand it should have warned me. All looked ok when I booted up due to the new home - a bit confusing.
