[Gllug] HP Smart array P400 (SAS)

[Yashpal Nagar]

John Hearns wrote:
> Yashpal Nagar wrote:
>> 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. 
>
> There is another way to do things.
> You don't need the card to be detected or configured at install time.
> Install on an IDE drive for the first time,
> then edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and add the cciss driver, and mkinitrd.
>
> Once you have the card up and addressable, you can make partitions on 
> it and transfer your install over to it.
> Some quick Lilo/Grub configuration and you should be able to boot off 
> it. (ie. put your bootloader of choice onto MBR of the RAID set on the 
> controller, not the IDE drive).
>
> But don't choose SuSE 9.0 for a new install on bang up to date 
> hardware like this in the first place.
>
Hi John,

Both DL580 G4 are new servers and i don't have any IDE disks. All 8 
disks are SCSI 146 GB 10K RPM, very thin hard disks.

I also transferred floppy image to a USB fob key by HP USB key utility 
(1.1) but that also did't worked, USB fob was again seen as a storage media.

Thanks for your reply

Regards
Yashpal







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