LSI 3801 JBOD card and Ubuntu 12.04 / 64 bit

[Alan McKay]

Hey folks, I'm back.   This got back-burnered for 3 months since it
was a minor exploratory project at the time, but now I'm back at it.

I'm now running 12.10 server and just wanted to report back in case
anyone else stumbles upon this thread looking for help.

12.10 sees the card fine, and the card is connected to a Sun J4400
disk array, and Ubuntu seems to see the disks in there just fine I'm
very pleased to say!

Sorry for the top post but leaving it for context since 3 months have passed ...

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I've got a 12.04 install and need to connect a couple of old Sun J4400
> arrays.   The only card Sun will guarantee works with that is an LSI
> 3801 (ES).  Well, there were 3 options - 2 LSI and an Adaptec.
> That's the one I was able to get since they are older.
>
> But I go to the LSI website and they only have drivers for SLES and
> RHEL4,5 and 6.  There are a crapload of RPMs in the tarball and I"m
> not sure how to sort that out to run alien on them.
>
> I did seem to sort it down to
> kmod-lsi-mptbase-4.28.00.00_rhel6.1-1.x86_64.rpm which alien converted
> to kmod-mptbase_4.28.00.00rhel6.1-2_amd64.deb
>
> But honestly I'm out of my league here and am just poking in the dark.
>
> Anyone know what I can do here?
>
> I don't have the card in the machine yet - so maybe I'll get lucky and
> it will just work.   What are the chances of that?
>
> My other option if I can't get this going is to wipe the box and
> install Scientific 6.1 and use the RHEL drivers.  But who wants to run
> RHEL when you can run Ubuntu? :-)
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
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