CentOS - Jul 2011 - HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

Hi

I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180 G6 which has HP Smart
Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver. I have 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD
and configured RAID 1+0 using System BIOS, the BIOS detects usable
disk space as 940GB disk space, when i start installing the OS, it
does not detect HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

As per
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884339&swItem=MTX-ee8b3f5c09a44b8aa259d07d3d&prodNameId=3884340&swEnvOID=4004&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1

Is there a way to get .iso file during installation of CentOS Linux ?

Please suggest/guide

Regards

Kaushal

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180 G6 which has HP Smart
> Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver. I have 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD
> and configured RAID 1+0 using System BIOS, the BIOS detects usable
> disk space as 940GB disk space, when i start installing the OS, it
> does not detect HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver
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Not familiar with the HP RAID controller card, but with others, you have
to go into the firmware on boot, and make the arrays, then make the
controller present it to the o/s. Until you do that very last step, you
don't see anything.

        mark

>I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180 G6 which has HP Smart
>Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver. I have 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD
>and configured RAID 1+0 using System BIOS, the BIOS detects usable
>disk space as 940GB disk space, when i start installing the OS, it
>does not detect HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver
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.

From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
> I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180 G6 which has HP Smart
> Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver. I have 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD
> and configured RAID 1+0 using System BIOS, the BIOS detects usable
> disk space as 940GB disk space, when i start installing the OS, it
> does not detect HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver
> As per 
>
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884339&swItem=MTX-ee8b3f5c09a44b8aa259d07d3d&prodNameId=3884340&swEnvOID=4004&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1
> Is there a way to get .iso file during installation of CentOS Linux ?
As mark said, did you create one (or more) logical drive(s) after you created
the array?
About the driver, they say: "The successful installation will replace the
driver that shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5" which seems to imply
that a working driver exists already...
Also, remember for later that many hp tools/drivers do check the
/etc/redhat-release for a specific Redhat release string...
If they see "CentOS ..." instead of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server release 5 (Tikanga)", it won't install.

JD