On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>Please help me understand. > > If the device requires an additional driver, unless its packaged as a dd for use at > install, how can you install and then add a driver? > > Disable RAID mode, set it to AHCI, then Anaconda will see all the individual discs > at which point during install you can choose to setup Linux md raid, far simpler > and almost always better than software raid IMHO. > > Recovery and monitoring facilities are built into Linux, life's just easier... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hi Joseph L Casale > >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. Thanks for the quick reply and explanation. You said use dd kit from rhel and create a linux device driver image and supply drivers during OS installation. dd command i suppose. Please further suggest. I have extracted the rpm file and it has hpahcisr.o file. Am i understanding you correctly ? Thanks again Regards Kaushal