Hi Kenny, please follow instructions in given below link; 1. http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay&spf_p.prp_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c03871499-1%257CdocLocale%253D%257CcalledBy%253D&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken 2. http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay&spf_p.prp_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c03742583-1%257CdocLocale%253D%257CcalledBy%253D&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken murad On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Kenny Noe <knoe501 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Well shoot! Thanks for the link. Definitely explains allot! I'm going > to > > update the box with the latest HP SPP and double check the updated driver > > is available. > > > > With this RAID controller and 4x 1TB are there any recommendations on the > > best way to install CentOS? Should I skip the controller, config disk as > > JBOD and RAID from there? I'd like to get the OS on a RAID but should I > > just build the OS on one disk and then RAID the remaining three? > > > > Sooo many choices.... Just need a box that is stable, has some type of > > redundancy and plenty of space. > > > > Thanks to all for your advice. I appreciate the help and guidance. > > If you don't mind losing half of the space and having that divided, > the old-school approach would be to make small-ish /boot and swap > paritions and the rest / on the first pair of drives, all as RAID1, > with the 2nd pair also RAID1, mounted as /home or /opt, depending on > what you intend to put there. There are more convenient and > generalized approaches now which I'm sure someone else will describe. > I still do it this way sometimes because (a) it is faster than a > RAID5, especially for writes, (b) if you lose a drive it still runs at > full speed in degraded mode, and (c) if the machine melts and all you > can save is one drive, you can plug it into any matching controller or > usb adapter and recover the files from it. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Asif Murad Khan Cell: +880-1713-114230