CentOS 5 Hardware :: How To Install CentOS On RAID 5.I

May 10, 2011

I have DELL R310 server with PERC 200H controller and RAID 5 configured already.This is my first time I want to install CentOS and seems like a new challenge for me I've read some articles on Wiki and posts on this forum and didn't find any information how to install CentOS on RAID 5.I only noticed that if there is fake or software RAID1 it should be switched off and made by OS configuration.I think PERC 200H is separate controller so RAID 5 is hardware RAID, is there anybody who can confirm ?My problem is that when I try to install CentOS it doesn't see any hard disks ... I looked for drivers on DELL web site and there is driver for Red Hat 6. I tried to install it using linux dd command but it doesn't recognize. Is there anybody else who met such problem ?

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Jan 13, 2010

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I'm asked for a driver, which I have downloaded from Adaptec site and extracted contents to USB drive (in installation found as /sba1) which has now a lot of IMG and some ISO files on it.

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May 7, 2009

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1. Do I need a Centos RAID device driver for hardware RAID-1 on the HP DL380R05 E5420 Server?
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other questions related to this are:

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Apr 28, 2009

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SATA port 2 is Western Digital "green" 1TB 8MB cache SATA 2
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Here is the relevent dmesg output...

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Dec 7, 2010

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but neither work and since there is no block device listed I'm not quite sure how to get things back in sync so it's only seeing the three drives.

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Jun 8, 2009

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