megacli/storcli won't work, use perccli instead

*George Machitidze*



On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Stephen Dowdy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/22/2018 09:53 AM, Howard, Chris wrote:
> > I don't use it often but I think it was working.
> > Now it is not working.  It always says there are no controllers.
>
> FWIW, sometimes the MegaRAID kernel drivers get wonked (esp when something
> is quite screwed up on the RAID itself), requiring a reboot for megacli to
> work, if you haven't done that.
>
> There was also a split a few years back in LSI/Avago/Broadcom/whatever
> land where 'storcli' and 'perccli' split functionality depending upon
> whether it was a pure LSI device or Dell/other sub-brand.  ('storcli' used
> to work for Dell controllers but then LSI/Ava... switched it to (i presume)
> look at the PCI SubVendor ID and will report "No Controller" if it was a
> Dell model.
>
> I continue to use MegaCli64-8.07.10  for all my PERC controllers and
> haven't had an issue with anything even current. (It Works For Me)
>
> --stepehn
> --
> Stephen Dowdy  -  Systems Administrator  -  NCAR/RAL
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