[CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

[John Doe]

From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>

> 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
> As per 
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884339&swItem=MTX-ee8b3f5c09a44b8aa259d07d3d&prodNameId=3884340&swEnvOID=4004&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1
> Is there a way to get .iso file during installation of CentOS Linux ?

As mark said, did you create one (or more) logical drive(s) after you created the array?
About the driver, they say: "The successful installation will replace the driver that shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5" which seems to imply that a working driver exists already...
Also, remember for later that many hp tools/drivers do check the /etc/redhat-release for a specific Redhat release string...
If they see "CentOS ..." instead of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)", it won't install.

JD