Adding an Areca ARC-188x series PCIe 2.0\/3.0 to SAS\/SATA 6\/12Gb RAID Controller to a server involved installing the arcmsr driver to the existing CentOS 9 based Linux OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This install from source from the vendor was required because the package install for kmod-acrmsr failed with an error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steps to obtain build and install the arcmsr driver were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) Determine the driver to download it and download it to \/usr\/local\/src\/ c) In your extracted arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226\/ directory, we need to apply some patches to the arcmsr.c file for modern RHEL 9 based kernels eg: from 5.14.0-6xx onwards kernel levels <\/p>\n\n\n\n d) Now you can begin the DKMS Add, Build, Install process with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create dkms.conf file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Run the DKMS commands to build and install the kernel module:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check with: Reboot to confirm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adding an Areca ARC-188x series PCIe 2.0\/3.0 to SAS\/SATA 6\/12Gb RAID Controller to a server involved installing the arcmsr driver to the existing CentOS 9 based Linux OS. This install from source from the vendor was required because the package … Continue reading nothing provides kernel(_dev_info) = 0x749cbadd needed by kmod-arcmsr-1.50.00.05-20210429.12.el9_8.elrepo.x86_64 from elrepo<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Use the output of “lspci | grep Areca<\/code>” to identify the card’s model # (“ARC-188x” in this case) and download the relevant zip file from https:\/\/www.areca.us\/products\/_driver_raidcard_1110.html#linux<\/a>
In our case we downloaded the RHEL 9.4 based zip file and got a file named 9_4.zip from the Areca site, which we extracted to \/usr\/local\/src\/areca-download-rhel9_4\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) In the \/usr\/local\/src\/areca-download-rhel9_4\/ directory, create a new directory for the extracted contents of the arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226.zip file:mkdir arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226 && cd arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226 && unzip ..\/arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226.zip<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The diff output of the patching required to arcmsr.c is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n201,202d200
< #include
< #include
1284c1282<\/code>< nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_INTX);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n > nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_LEGACY);<\/code>
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ACB *pacb = from_timer(pacb, t, refresh_timer);<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_LEGACY);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n4614c4612<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n< ACB *acb = container_of(t, ACB, eternal_timer);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nACB *acb = from_timer(acb, t, eternal_timer);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n5317c5315<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n< ACB *pacb = container_of(t, ACB, refresh_timer);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
cat << EOF > dkms.conf
PACKAGE_NAME=”arcmsr”
PACKAGE_VERSION=”1.51.00.16″
BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]=”arcmsr”
DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=”\/kernel\/drivers\/scsi\/”
AUTOINSTALL=”yes”
EOF<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Setup DKMS source directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\nmkdir \/usr\/src\/arcmsr-1.51.00.16\/
cp \/usr\/local\/src\/areca-download-rhel9_4\/arcmsr-1.51.0x.16-20231226\/* \/usr\/src\/arcmsr-1.51.00.16\/<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\ndkms add -m arcmsr -v 1.51.00.16<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\ndkms build -m arcmsr -v 1.51.00.16 ## if needed: -k `uname -r`<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\ndkms install -m arcmsr -v 1.51.00.16<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\ndkms status<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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