diff --git a/xCAT-genesis-builder/installkernel b/xCAT-genesis-builder/installkernel
index cfbfc0fd3..fbe7b4edb 100755
--- a/xCAT-genesis-builder/installkernel
+++ b/xCAT-genesis-builder/installkernel
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 instmods nfs sunrpc
-instmods e1000 e1000e virtio_net igb enic ines sfc mlx4_en cxgb3 cxgb4 tg3 bnx2 bnx2x bna ixgb ixgbe qlge mptsas mpt2sas ata_piix megaraid_sas virtio_blk ahci ibmaem xhci-hcd sd_mod pmcraid be2net vfat ext3 ext4 btrfs reiserfs usb_storage scsi_wait_scan kvm kvm-intel kvm-amd ipmi_si ipmi_devintf
+instmods e1000 e1000e virtio_net igb enic ines sfc mlx4_en cxgb3 cxgb4 tg3 bnx2 bnx2x bna ixgb ixgbe qlge mptsas mpt2sas mpt3sas ata_piix megaraid_sas virtio_blk ahci ibmaem xhci-hcd sd_mod pmcraid be2net vfat ext3 ext4 btrfs reiserfs usb_storage scsi_wait_scan kvm kvm-intel kvm-amd ipmi_si ipmi_devintf
 instmods macvlan macvtap 8021q bridge bonding vmxnet3 cpufreq_ondemand acpi-cpufreq powernow-k8 cdc_ether
 instmods mptctl #LSI firmware management requires this
 instmods mlx4_ib ib_umad #make the mellanox ib available enough to examine /sys
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh
index cba5d49f7..113c5760b 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ if [ -z "$instdisk" ]; then
 		"ata_piix4"|"PMC MaxRAID"|"ahci"|"megaraid_sas") #certainly direct
 			if [ -z "$firstdirectdisk" ]; then firstdirectdisk=$disk; fi #remember first disk as a guess of medium resort
 			;;
-		"mptsas"|"mpt2sas") #*PROBABLY* not SAN, but SAS SAN is possible
+		"mptsas"|"mpt2sas"|"mpt3sas") #*PROBABLY* not SAN, but SAS SAN is possible
 			if [ -z "$probablyfirstdirectdisk" ]; then probablyfirstdirectdisk=$disk; fi #remember first disk as a guess of medium resort
 			;;
 		*)
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh.rhel7 b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh.rhel7
index 392a6ce13..09203dfc6 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh.rhel7
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh.rhel7
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ if [ -z "$instdisk" ]; then
 		"ata_piix4"|"PMC MaxRAID"|"ahci"|"megaraid_sas") #certainly direct
 			if [ -z "$firstdirectdisk" ]; then firstdirectdisk=$disk; fi #remember first disk as a guess of medium resort
 			;;
-		"mptsas"|"mpt2sas") #*PROBABLY* not SAN, but SAS SAN is possible
+		"mptsas"|"mpt2sas"|"mpt3sas") #*PROBABLY* not SAN, but SAS SAN is possible
 			if [ -z "$probablyfirstdirectdisk" ]; then probablyfirstdirectdisk=$disk; fi #remember first disk as a guess of medium resort
 			;;
 		*)
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.sles b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.sles
index 6c616c9e8..82337a568 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.sles
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.sles
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ if [ -z "$instdisk" ]; then
 		"ata_piix4"|"PMC MaxRAID"|"ahci"|"megaraid_sas") #certainly direct
 			if [ -z "$firstdirectdisk" ]; then firstdirectdisk=$disk; fi #remember first disk as a guess of medium resort
 			;;
-		"mptsas"|"mpt2sas") #*PROBABLY* not SAN, but SAS SAN is possible
+		"mptsas"|"mpt2sas"|"mpt3sas") #*PROBABLY* not SAN, but SAS SAN is possible
 			if [ -z "$probablyfirstdirectdisk" ]; then probablyfirstdirectdisk=$disk; fi #remember first disk as a guess of medium resort
 			;;
 		*)