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 on a current kernel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The steps to obtain build and install the arcmsr driver from Areca’s archive 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 d) Now you can begin the DKMS Add, Build, Install process with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create dkms.conf file in your extracted arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226\/ directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Setup DKMS source directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Run the DKMS commands to build and install the kernel module in the \/usr\/src\/arcmsr-1.51.00.16\/ directory:<\/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> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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:<\/p>\n\n\n\nmkdir arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226 && cd arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226 && unzip ..\/arcmsr-1.51.0X.16-20231226.zip<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The diff output of the patching required to arcmsr.c is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n201,202d200\n< \t#include <linux\/pci.h>\n< \t#include <linux\/timer.h>\n1284c1282\n< \t\tnvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_INTX);\n---\n> \t\tnvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_LEGACY);\n4614c4612\n< \tACB *acb = container_of(t, ACB, eternal_timer);\n---\n> \tACB *acb = from_timer(acb, t, eternal_timer);\n5317c5315\n< \tACB *pacb = container_of(t, ACB, refresh_timer);\n---\n> \tACB *pacb = from_timer(pacb, t, refresh_timer);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ncat << EOF > dkms.conf\nPACKAGE_NAME=\"arcmsr\"\nPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.51.00.16\"\nBUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]=\"arcmsr\"\nDEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=\"\/kernel\/drivers\/scsi\/\"\nAUTOINSTALL=\"yes\"\nEOF<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nmkdir \/usr\/src\/arcmsr-1.51.00.16\/\ncp \/usr\/local\/src\/areca-download-rhel9_4\/arcmsr-1.51.0x.16-20231226\/* \/usr\/src\/arcmsr-1.51.00.16\/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ndkms add -m arcmsr -v 1.51.00.16\ndkms build -m arcmsr -v 1.51.00.16 ## if needed add: -k `uname -r`\ndkms install -m arcmsr -v 1.51.00.16<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ndkms status<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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