[CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card

Mon Jul 11 15:22:52 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Colin Coles <colin at wemoto.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 11 July 2011 15:49, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Server loaded with CentOS 5.6. Can someone
>>> please suggest any good Hardware Raid Controller Card for the
>>> mentioned Hardware and OS. The reason being this server comes with
>>> Onboard Sata Controller chipset (HP Smart Array B110i Controller).
>>> This server has SATA Harddrive - 4 Nos of 500GB each and the OS
>>> doesnot detect it.
>>
>> Have you set up the array using the disk setup utility?
>
> Yes I have setup RAID 1+0 Array using HP Smart Controller B110i BIOS.
> It shows usable disk space of approx 940 GB but the OS does not see it
> instead it shows all the 4 * 500 GB HDD.

If you go back into the bootup RAID firmware, does it show it that way?
Was the RAID initialized?

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