[CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

Tue Jul 5 15:08:56 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>>I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180 G6 which has HP Smart
>>Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver. I have 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD
>>and configured RAID 1+0 using System BIOS, the BIOS detects usable
>>disk space as 940GB disk space, when i start installing the OS, it
>>does not detect HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver
>
> That thing is a software raid setup iirc, although there is an rpm for it
> post install, you could use the ddkit from rhel to make a dd image but
> frankly I would just use mdraid, turn off the riad setup and just use
> AHCI.

Hmmm... if that's a software RAID, the o/s wouldn't see it, I would think,
until it was up. In that case, I'd make a plain vanilla partition
somewhere for /boot.

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