We are currently installing a brand new Dell PowerEdge R510 rack server and ran in a little problem regarding the PERC H200 SAS raid controller. We startet with Debian Testing Netinstall-CD, which is a logical choice, if you have a Debian mirror in the same server room. But the installer doesn’t recognizes the raid controller.
The PCI-ID of the H200 is 1000:0072, so the controller is (according to Google) a relabled LSI Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon]. You will need the ‘mpt2sas’ module for it. It should be in kernel version 2.6.30 or higher, but wasn’t on the Netinstall CD (which had a 2.6.30-2 iirc).
After a lot of searching, we eventually tried the first CD of the normal Debian Testing Installer CD-Set and it worked. The CD came with a 2.6.32 kernel. So, if you run into the same problem, you should grab the first CD of the normal installer set (which should be enough for a basic installation). The ISO can be found at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/.
Funny sidenote: Our Intel 10GBit CX4 NIC ran out of the box. The 1GBit onboard NIC not.
Thats great stuff, I am downloading it now and will try it on the R510 and R410 models. Will let you know how I get on.
Cheers for this, it has saved me some time!
worked fine! required the broadcom drivers netextreme .deb firmware file but after that it recognised and installed everything else!
Very helpful!!! Many thanks
Just ran into this. Thank you for taking the time to post about your solution to the problem. You have saved me an hour of fiddling.
Thanks a lot for sharing this info. Running debian like a charm now 🙂