Dell FusionIO Centos 6

Recently I got in touch with Dell R910 with FusionIO drive. I needed to backup its content. Thus I booted CentOs live CD 6.2. But no fioX device found in /dev/fio* ( ls /dev/fio )

Card is present

lspci | grep -i fusion

42:00.0 Mass storage controller: Fusion-io 2001 (rev 04)
45:00.0 Mass storage controller: Fusion-io 2001 (rev 04)

Dell has this nice page http://dell.fusionio.com/ where binaries are available.

Software Source
iomemory-vsl-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.src.rpm

Software Binaries
iomemory-vsl-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm
iomemory-vsl-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm
iomemory-vsl-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm
iomemory-vsl-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm

Utilities
fio-common-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm
fio-sysvinit-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm
fio-util-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm
lib32vsl-3.2.3.950-1.el6.i386.rpm
libvsl-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm

Firmware
dell_iodrive_3.2.3-20130605.fff
fio-firmware-dell_iodrive-3.2.3.20130605-1.noarch.rpm

I just grab iomemory-vsl-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64-3.2.3.950-1.0.el6.x86_64.rpm and installed it.

Then modprobe iomemory-vsl

Finally

ls /dev/fio* show

/dev/fiob

thanks http://serverascode.com/2012/05/23/installing-ibm-fusionio-rhel_centos6.html