Help with SAS Driver

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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Hi,

I have an old Dell PowerEdge R610 that I need to load Red Hat9 but since version 8, Red Hat has remove all drivers for older hardware from the ISO.

The R610 as LSILogic SAS1068E-IR SAS card in it (Dell SAS 6/iR). Could anyone please tell me where I can find the driver for this card for Red Hat 9?
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To start I tough this was part of the SAS2008 familly and tried the drivers from [this repo](https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el9/x86_64/) but it didn’t work.

Could anyone please assist me?

Regards,
Fred

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The Red Hat KB asked people to replace the card but is there not a way to load the driver manually?

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Hi all,

I found this repo, could nyone please tell me if the SAS 6/IR is a Megaraid or SaTA?
https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el9/x86_64/

Thank you

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Based on your article you posted it looks like it isn’t supported. I personally wouldn’t try to hack my way into making it work either.

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The vendor / device ID of your card is 1000:0058, according to this list: https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1000/0058

And according to this list here: http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs#mptsas.ko - dd-mptsas would be the matching driver package.

So I would try one of these:

dd-mptsas-3.04.20-1.el9_0.elrepo.SHA256SUM.asc 2022-05-19 14:06 348
dd-mptsas-3.04.20-1.el9_0.elrepo.iso 2022-05-19 14:06 718K
dd-mptsas-3.04.20-2.el9_1.elrepo.SHA256SUM.asc 2022-12-06 19:23 345
dd-mptsas-3.04.20-2.el9_1.elrepo.iso 2022-12-06 19:23 740K

Hope that helps.

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@bb77 I cannot thank you enough for going through all the details above. I have now managed to load the correct driver and I can see all the HDD during the installation.

You just saved my bacon :slight_smile:

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Glad it worked out.

:slight_smile: