Description:

A small number of Marquis K942-SS systems shipped with the standard LSI HostRAID firmware. When using this firmware, the controller is not supported by the standard LSI driver in the Linux kernel.

We now have a new LSI firmware for this system that will allow it to work with the standard driver that ships with CentOS/RHEL. If this firmware is installed, it is no longer necessary to use any driver disks.

Note:

This update also applies to the following systems:

Omega 9428-SS

!!! WARNING !!!

Upgrading this firmware will destroy any existing data on the disks. To preserve your data remove the drives from the system prior to performing the update.

The firmware update CD can be downloaded here:

ftp://ftp.aslab.com/pub/bios/lsi/lsi_h8qm32.iso

After burning the CD, follow these steps to upgrade the firmware:

1) Boot the system from the LSI firmware CD

2) Type the following command to retrieve the address of the SAS adapter:

A:\> mptutil -q

Write down the 16 digit address. It will be used later.

3) Clear the existing firmware:

A:\> clear.bat

5) Remove the side panel

6) Remove jumper JPS1. This jumper should be located in the front left corner of the motherboard near the LSI chip.

7) Boot the system from LSI firmware CD

8) Install the new firmware

A:\> h8qm32.bat

9) When prompted, enter the 16 digit SAS address recorded earlier

10) Wait for the firmware update to complete

11) Power off the system

The latest ASL Driver CD can be downloaded at this link. It contains the latest ASL kernel sources and add-on software such as Nvidia binary driver and 3ware RAID management utility.

http://updates.aslab.com/isos/v5.46.iso

To access the contents in the ASL Driver CD, run the following command:

# mount -o loop v5.46.iso /mnt

The latest ASL Laptop Driver CD can be downloaded at this link. This CD provides supported files for the Excalibur laptop models.

http://updates.aslab.com/isos/laptop-1.13.iso

To access the contents in the ASL Laptop Driver CD, run the following command:

# mount -o loop laptop-1.13.iso /mnt

The latest ASL Device Driver CD for RHEL3/CentOS 3.5 can be downloaded here. This CD provide updated (Intel Gigabit/e1000, Adaptec SCSI/aic79xx) or new device drivers (Marvell SATA/mv_sata, Highpoint SATA RAID/hpt_mv, 3ware SATA RAID/3w-9xxx) required during the OS installation.

http://updates.aslab.com/isos/RHEL3/

The latest ASL Device Driver CD for RHEL4/CentOS 4.x can be downloaded here. This CD provide updated (Intel Gigabit/e1000, Adaptec SCSI/aic79xx) or new device drivers (Marvell SATA/mv_sata, Highpoint SATA RAID/hpt_mv, 3ware SATA RAID/3w-9xxx) required during the OS installation.

http://updates.aslab.com/isos/RHEL4/

The latest ASL Device Driver CD for RHEL5/CentOS 5.x can be downloaded here. This CD provide updated (Intel Gigabit/igb, 3Ware/3w-9xxx, LSI SAS/mptsas) or new device drivers (Highpoint SATA RAID/hptmv) required during the OS installation.

http://updates.aslab.com/isos/RHEL5/

The latest ASL Device Driver Floppy for SuSE Linux 9.3 can be downloaded here. These floppy images provide updated (Intel Gigabit/e1000) or new device drivers (Marvell SATA/mv_sata, Highpoint SATA RAID/hpt_mv, 3ware SATA RAID/3w-9xxx) required during the OS installation.

http://updates.aslab.com/isos/SuSE93/

Problem:

The kernel package was updated.  When the system was rebooted, the graphical desktop no longer loads.

Affected Versions:

Fedora 15

Details:

This occurs when the system is configured to use the binary Nvidia driver.  When upgrading the kernel on such a system, the Nvidia driver package must be updated at the same time.

Solution:

The following commands will update the Nvidia driver package:

# yum update kmod-nvidia

# dracut -v -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Problem:

How can I retrieve SMART data from the 3Ware Escalade 9750 controller?

Details:

Versions of smartmontools prior to 5.40 cannot access the SMART data of drives attached to the 9750 controller.

Solution:

An updated version of smartmontools for several Linux distributions can be found on the ASL driver CD:

CentOS/RHEL 5:

RedHat/EL5/x86_64/smartmontools-5.40-svn3178.el5.x86_64.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6:

RedHat/EL6/x86_64/smartmontools-5.40-svn3178.el6.x86_64.rpm

Description:

By default the motherboard contains the standard LSI HostRAID firmware.  When using this firmware, the controller is not supported by the standard LSI driver in the Linux kernel.

!!! WARNING !!!

Upgrading this firmware will destroy any existing data on the disks.

Affected Platforms

Lancelot 2869-SS

Lancelot 3869-SS

Lancelot 4869-SS

Procedure

The firmware update CD can be downloaded here:

ftp://ftp.aslab.com/pub/bios/lsi/lsi_x8dt3.iso

After burning the CD, follow these steps to upgrade the firmware:

1) Boot the server from the CD

2) Write down the old SAS address:

A> mptutil -q

3) Clear the old firmware:

A> clear.bat

4) Turn the system off

5) Turn the system on

6) Boot the server from the CD

7) Program the new firmware:

A> x8dt3.bat

8) When prompted, enter the 16 digit SAS address recorded earlier

9) Wait for the firmware update to complete

10) Power off the system

11) Power off system and remove jumper JPS2

You should now be able to install CentOS without a driver disk.