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Supported SAS Controllers
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Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS2LL080 and RMS2LL040
Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25GB008 
Intel(R) RAID Controller RS25FB044
Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25JB040, RMS25JB080, RMS25KB040, RMS25KB080, RMS25LB040, and RMS25LB080

Please verify that this utility has been tested with the RAID/SAS card you have chosen to use by checking the drivers web page for your controller at http://www.intel.com/support/.

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Package Information
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Driver Version = 17.00.01.00
OS supported =SLES11 (GA-SP3) (both x86 & x64 versions for these OS versions)

This driver is intended for use with IT and IR configurations 

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Attention!
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It is important to follow instructions provided below for successfully installing SLES10/11 or RHEL5/6 operating systems onto SAS device.

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Known Restrictions
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N/A

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Contents in the package
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The following files(or folders) are included in this package:

Name							Description
MPT2SAS_ITIR_SLES11_SP3_ph17_Readme.txt		        This file
License_v2.pdf						License file
COPYING							GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
mpt2sas-17.00.01.00-src.tar.gz				Driver tar archive source
mpt2sas-srpms-howto.pdf					Instructions on how to create and install the mpt2sas driver binary RPMs from SRPMS				x86 and x64 version drivers for SLES11(GA-SP2) including driver RPM source file
/sles11sp3/disks-1					Compact Disk (CD) images for creating Installation CD(s) for SLES11SP3
/sles11sp3/rpms-1						x86 and x64 version drivers for SLES11(GA-SP2) including driver RPM source file

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binary naming convention.
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-KMP  (For all SUSE releases)
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KMP RPM images are named as:  lsi-mpt2sas-kmp-<flavor>-<version>_<os>.<arch>.rpm
	where:
	<flavor>	=	flavor of distro for which this rpm is built
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm
	<os>		=	{sles10, sles11}
	<arch>		= 	x86_64 - Opteron Processor, w/ x86_64 install
				i686 - i686 or later processor (Red Hat)
				i586 - x86 installations (SuSE)
				ppc  - Power PC processor
example:
lsi-mpt2sas-kmp-debug-17.00.01.00_sles11-1.i586.rpm

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Driver Update Disks:
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dud images are named : mpt2sas-<version>-<release>-<os>.<arch>.dd.gz

	where:
	<version>	=	version tag for this rpm
	<release>	=	release tag for this rpm
	<os>		=	{sles10, sles11}
	<arch>		=	x86_64 - Opteron Processor, w/ x86_64 install
				i686 - i686 or later processor (Red Hat)
				i586 - x86 installations (SuSE)
				ppc  - Power PC processor

example:
mpt2sas-17.00.01.00-1-sles11.x86_64.iso.gz


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Driver Installation Instructions
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This updated driver can be applied using the normal OS installation options.

1 The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install OS on drives attached to the Intel(R) IT controller or device.

2 Prepare Installation disk(s)
2.1 Driver files are available on the CD that shipped with the product or can be downloaded from http://www.intel.com/support/ 
2.2 Create install CD(s) from image in disks folder
The driver is provided as CD image (file extension is .iso). To prepare the installation driver CD, a third-party cd burner application to burn image to a CD.

3 Installation methods
There are different types of installation possible with the installation package provided. Those are explained in different sections.

3.1 OS installation on IT/IR

This mode of installation is selected when user needs to install the Operating system on a fresh IT/IR configuration. 
For this kind of installation the driver update CD is used at the starting of the installation and the installer will update the system with driver images for the required kernels. 
Follow the procedure given below to install the driver at the time of Installation.

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3.1.1 Installing SLES10/11
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a) Boot to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with OS Disk 1.
b) When first screen come up press F5 key for SLES 10 or F6 key for SLES 9 to load a driver, then select installation menu option 
c) Insert cd made with iso image from step 2.2
d) Follow the installation procedure to continue the OS installation. 
   Tip: press ALT+CTRL+F4 to see whether the driver is loaded. 



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3.2 Updating RHEL or SLES SAS driver on already installed system
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This method is used to update IT/IR driver in a system, which is already installed with an older (or OS embedded) driver version. Here this procedure explains the manual process of updating the driver.  Follow the steps given to update driver.

1) Boot the OS from primary controller/Disk.
2) Copy mptlinux rpm files to a temporary directory in the OS.
3) Query which version of the MPT driver is installed by running the command
	#rpm -qa | grep mpt2sas
4) (If result of step#4 is null, then skip this step.)Remove the bundled version of the MPT driver by running the command
	#rpm -e mpt2sas-<version>-<os>
5) Install the new version of the MPT driver by running the command
	#rpm -ivh mpt2sas-<version>-<release>-<os>.<arch>.rpm
6) Run command line
	#lsmod
to check if mptsas has been loaded successfully.
7) Run command line
	#modinfo mpt2sas
to make sure that the mpt2sas driver version has been updated
8) Completed.

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Known Bugs
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N/A

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Fixes/Updates
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Version 17.00.01.00
1. Added SLES11 SP3 support

Version 17.00.00.00
1. Fixed Kernel fails to allocate the memory requested for higher queue depth and/or
higher MSIX vectors.
2. Fixed unbalanced reply queue to CPU mapping when max_msix_vectors is set

Version 15.00.02.00-1
1. Add support for Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25LB040/80
2. Add support for RHEL 6U4

Version 14.00.00.00
1. Add support for RHEL 6U3

Version 13.00.00.00
1. Add support for Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25FB044
2. Add support for RHEL 6.2 and SLES11SP2

Version 11.40.00.00-2
1. Add support for RHEL 6.1
2. Initial release for Intel(R) Integrated RAID Modules RMS25JB040, RMS25JB080, RMS25KB040 and RMS25KB080

Version 10.00.00.00-5
1. Add support for SLES10SP4 and RHEL5U7

Version 8.00.00.00
1. Initial release for Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25GB008.

version 7.255.03
1. Add Support for SLES11 SP1
2. Support Intel unique identification when Intel Subsystem IDs are detected.

Version 5.00.02
1. Initial release for RMS2LL080 and RMS2LL040 modules

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