[Gllug] HP Smart array P400 (SAS)

[Yashpal Nagar]

Hello All

I came across a two HP DL580 G4 boxes with a smart array P400 controller 
(SAS) card. This array card does't get automagically detected with SUSE 
9.0 during the installation. I have also found the driver diskette image 
for that controller on hp website and made a diskette as per their 
recommendations (rawrite etc.)

 The problem is there is no internal floppy drive, knowing there are two 
USB ports, when i put the USB floppy drive it shows me as a mass storage 
device (/dev/sda) and try to read floppy.
when the installation program (linux updates disk or media) try to read 
usb floppy it shows me

unknown partition table....

no matter i changed/made many floppies with same image, but problem 
still remain the same.

I am sure i am not the first in this planet who came across with this 
problem. what i want to know is
How one can provide the driver from USB floppy?

HP has told me a utility called HP USB Key utility which can put a 
floppy image/smart array CD to a USB fob that also did't worked.

Could anyone suggest something else?


Regards
Yashpal





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