Hi,
I have Server Board S2600GL with RAID C600 chipset and Upgrade Key: RKSATA8R5 (Intel RSTe or Intel ESRT2 8 ports SATA RAID 0, 1, 10, 5).
Installed SATA hard drives (8 pieces) with RAID 5.
Historically, this situation are :
Installed CentOS 6.5 (64-bit) _without_ special Intel RAID drivers.
In BIOS menu "Mass Storage Configuration" set:
AHCI Capable SATA controller = Disabled
SAS/SATA Capable controller = INTEL RSTe
All worked fine since summer 2013.
Details in attached file.
After a failure of one hard drive (everything is fine now) I found this information:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-033209.htm
This applies to: Intel® Server Board S2600GL
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3* with KVM (32-bit & 64-bit) only supported in AHCI or ESRT2 mode"
My questions are:
1. whether it is necessary immediately migrate whole server to another location and reconfigure the current Intel RSTe controller mode to ESRT2 mode (and migrate server back) ?
2. Where to find the Intel ESRT2 drivers for CentOS 6.5 (64-bit) ?
3. If I do not switch to ESRT2 mode and the driver is not installed (ie leave it as is), what awaits me in the future?