Tony Mountifield wrote: > I am trying to install CentOS5 on a new HP DL360e G8 with B120i disk > controller. It appears that a proprietary HP driver is needed for it. > > I found a useful description at > http://www.linuxhelp.in/2013/08/Installing-centos-on-HP-Proliant-DL360e-Gen8-with-B120i-controller.html > > I have a pair of hard drives to use as a RAID1 mirror. Have you already set up the drives in the firmware to present to the o/s? If you haven't done that before, on a system that has all the drives going through the hardware controller, you need to know that you *must* go that way. After, the o/s will see it correctly as SATA/scsi. With Dells and a PERC, even if you don't want RAID, you *must* create it on your drives as raid 0? Something, and then it presents that as a drive. > > My question to people who may have been this way already is: is it worth > my fiddling around with that procedure to get the RAID controller working, > performance-wise, or might I just as well use AHCI mode with kernel > mdraid? Intel fakeRAID, I do that. For a real h/w RAID controller, you not only should use it, you *must* use it. > > I normally use Supermicro with AHCI and mdraid quite happily, but the > customer wanted HP :( mark, who *really* dislikes SuperMicro m/b