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...the output of lspci: MegaRAID SAS 3208 ELP Does this mean its not the 1068E controller inside but something else? Or CentOS misidentifies it? So I assume the controller is not supported and I need a binary driver for it. For 1068e it should be: http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068e/index.html and the driver I need is inside the file mptlinux-4.26.00.00-1-rhel5.5.x86_64.dd.gz But how do I go applying this driver during installation as the server has no floppy drive? And what happens if I get the driver installed and then the server's kernel is update...

I posted a thread on this once long ago[1] -- but we''re still fighting with this problem and I wanted to throw it out here again. All of our hardware is from Silicon Mechanics (SuperMicro chassis and motherboards). Up until now, all of the hardware has had a single 24-disk expander / backplane -- but we recently got one of the new SC847-based models with 24 disks up front and 12 in the