CentOS - Apr 2008 - Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

I want to install CentOS 5.1 with hardware RAID on an HP DL140 G3 server 
that I have here for testing. It prompts me for a storage controller. 
According to this readme page for the latest driver at
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1463703615/v44436/mpt
linux-4.00.13.01-2.rhel5.i686.dd.gz.txt
CentOS 5 should already contain a "default driver version contained in the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation CD"
I would rather like to use that than go the complicated route of providing 
the latest HP driver. That "HP Internal Port SAS/SATA HBA with RAID" 
actually is a RAID controller from LSILogic and I tried to load all four 
LSILogic drivers provided on the driver list, but none is accepted.
Does somebody have experience with this server/RAID controller and can 
tell me if I can go somehow with the drivers provided by CentOS 5.1 or do 
I need to go with the drivers provided by HP?

Kai

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On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 23:33 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I want to install CentOS 5.1 with hardware RAID on an HP DL140 G3 server 
> that I have here for testing. It prompts me for a storage controller. 
Check your BIOS Settings for the controller. May be that it needs to set
to "Mass Storage" if available in the HP Bios. I am not a die hard HP
person so check the settings available. I know for a fact this is a
problem with other manufactures.

Maybe there is a HP Guy or Gal in here some where that can elaborate
some more on this for you.....
> According to this readme page for the latest driver at
> ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1463703615/v44436/mpt
> linux-4.00.13.01-2.rhel5.i686.dd.gz.txt
> CentOS 5 should already contain a "default driver version contained in
the
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation CD"
Then again the MPT Drivers for that controller may have been dropped for
that controller. I do know several have been "End of Lifed" I know
this
to be true for other high end server manufactures. Support for them
ended in RHEL 4. So that would = CentOS 4 as well.
> I would rather like to use that than go the complicated route of providing 
> the latest HP driver. That "HP Internal Port SAS/SATA HBA with
RAID"
> actually is a RAID controller from LSILogic and I tried to load all four 
> LSILogic drivers provided on the driver list, but none is accepted.
See bios explaination above.
> Does somebody have experience with this server/RAID controller and can 
> tell me if I can go somehow with the drivers provided by CentOS 5.1 or do 
> I need to go with the drivers provided by HP?
> 
> Kai
> 
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Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> That "HP Internal Port SAS/SATA HBA with RAID" 
> actually is a RAID controller from LSILogic and I tried to load all four 
> LSILogic drivers provided on the driver list, but none is accepted.
HP raids tend to have custom microcode to implement various HP specific 
features such as media interchange between all their different systems, 
so they aren't likely going to work with the hardware vendors generic 
OEM drivers.