On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 23:33 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I want to install CentOS 5.1 with hardware RAID on an HP DL140 G3 server that I have here for testing. It prompts me for a storage controller.
Check your BIOS Settings for the controller. May be that it needs to set to "Mass Storage" if available in the HP Bios. I am not a die hard HP person so check the settings available. I know for a fact this is a problem with other manufactures.
Maybe there is a HP Guy or Gal in here some where that can elaborate some more on this for you.....
According to this readme page for the latest driver at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1463703615/v44436/mpt linux-4.00.13.01-2.rhel5.i686.dd.gz.txt CentOS 5 should already contain a "default driver version contained in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation CD"
Then again the MPT Drivers for that controller may have been dropped for that controller. I do know several have been "End of Lifed" I know this to be true for other high end server manufactures. Support for them ended in RHEL 4. So that would = CentOS 4 as well.
I would rather like to use that than go the complicated route of providing the latest HP driver. That "HP Internal Port SAS/SATA HBA with RAID" actually is a RAID controller from LSILogic and I tried to load all four LSILogic drivers provided on the driver list, but none is accepted.
See bios explaination above.
Does somebody have experience with this server/RAID controller and can tell me if I can go somehow with the drivers provided by CentOS 5.1 or do I need to go with the drivers provided by HP?
Kai