Support for SAS H800 controllers in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Issue

• SAS RAID H800 storage controllers, are supported as of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• SAS RAID H800

Resolution

• Customers must use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 or later to use the SAS H800 storage controller.
• Customers using the 32-bit (x86) version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on systems which use the AMD Opteron 6000-series processor (code-named "Magny-Cours") and AMD Opteron 4100 series (code-named "Lisbon") should be aware that kernel-2.6.18-194.el5 will panic on boot on these platforms. In order to resolve, kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 or later must be used on these systems. For further details, please refer to the following knowledge base articles:
  • AMD "Lisbon" (Opteron 4100-series) systems will panic when booting the x86 (32bit) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 kernel
  • AMD "Magny-Cours" (Opteron 6000) systems will panic when booting the X86 (32bit) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 kernel