Got the latest nightly from https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/, it does work. I suppose the newer kernel may be the answer.
Thanks, Brett On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:53 PM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 05:30:09PM +0000, Brett Taylor wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > > > Boot method: network > > Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> > > Date: Oct 3 2016 12pm > > > > Machine: supermicro SC826E16/MB-X9DRE-TF+ > > Processor: E5-2680v2 > > Memory: 36JSF2G72PZ / 36KSF2G72PZ > > Partitions: > > > > Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): > [snip] > > Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] [1000:005d] (rev 02) > > Oct 3 13:25:46 rx Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device > [1000:9363] > > Oct 3 13:25:46 rx Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas > > Oct 3 13:25:46 rx ff:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation > Xeon > > OK, so an LSI 3108 megaraid. > > [snip] > > (0,7,0) (sda) - 480.1 GB ATA Micron_M500DC_MT > > Micron M500DC SSDs. > > [snip] > > Tainted: G B 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 > So Debian Jessie (your report didn't bother to say which debian version > you were trying to install which makes the report REALLY hard to do > anything about). > > So you are using SSDs that support SED (self encrypting drive) as far > as I can tell. I found this kernel driver change from last year (which > is of course newer than the kernel in jessie): > > commit 7497cde883b184ead109652f236df98d78090a90 > Author: sumit.sax...@avagotech.com <sumit.sax...@avagotech.com> > Date: Mon Jan 5 20:06:03 2015 +0530 > > megaraid_sas: add support for secure JBOD > > This patch adds support for Secure Encrypting Drives (SED) in JBOD > mode: > > 1) If the firmware supports SED JBOD, all non read/write commands to > JBODs > will be sent via firmware path, and read/write commands to JBODs > will > be sent via fastpath. > 2) If the firmware does not support SED JBOD, driver will fall back to > the > old design, i.e. send all JBOD I/O via fastpath. > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.sax...@avagotech.com> > Signed-off-by: Chaitra Basappa <chaitra.basa...@avagotech.com> > Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> > > I wonder if you have hit a problem with your SSDs in JBOD mode due to the > driver in 3.16 kernel in jessie not yet supporting that combination, while > almost certainly being on hardware new enough that it does support that. > > Could you try booting the testing version of the installer just to see > if it survives? If it does, that would certainly point to the issue > being a problem in the megaraid driver on the older kernel in jessie. > > The fact it works in non JBOD mode where the RAID hides details of the > drives certainly makes that seem possible too. > > -- > Len Sorensen > -- Brett Taylor System Engineer
