Re: LSI MegaRAID installation

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Mouse wrote:
>>> I can't see anything in dmesg.boot: it's conceivable that if RAID
>>> mode is not configured in the BIOS then the chip won't show up I
>>> suppose.
>
>> You will still see the PCI device, e.g.:
>
>> vendor 1000 product 0016 (RAID mass storage, revision 0x01) at pci11 dev 0 function 0 not configured
>
> Sometimes.
>
> I have seen cases where, as Steve says, a device that's disabled at the
> BIOS config level is not visible on the system buses at all.  Is there
> some reason it's impossible this could be such a case?

Depends what his definition of "RAID mode is not configured in the BIOS" 
means. In my experience with MegaRAID stuff, this would mean "haven't 
created any virtual drives yet" - on modern uEFI you do this through the 
BIOS/uEFI settings.

-- 
Stephen