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I have recently bought a couple of 2nd hand HP DL160 G6. I have configured the internal B110i in RAID 1+0 (using four SATA disks). When I tried to install either Centos 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the machines I have seen all the four drives independently rather than the created array. I used in the past HP DL380 G5 which had a cciss driver that was recognized by either distro (RHEL 5 and Ubuntu 12.04).

How Can I enable the array on the machine (at install time if possible)?

Do I have to provide some custom driver (using dd install)?

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For that particular server, there is a binary driver (hpahcisr, not cciss or hpsa) available for supported operating systems (Windows, RHEL6, SuSE); neither of which you're planning to use.

In the case of Ubuntu or anything other than RHEL5/6, your only options are a different controller or to use software RAID. Ubuntu is totally unsupported on this platform.

Here's HP's compatibility matrix for the ProLiant DL160 G6 enter image description here

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  • Is there any operation that I have to do in BIOS (e.g delete logical disks, disable RAID/RAID controller) before setting up the software RAID? Or shall I create 4 devices in raid 0? Apr 4, 2015 at 14:21
  • The OS won't even recognize that controller without the driver. You'll be disabling the RAID functionality completely.
    – ewwhite
    Apr 4, 2015 at 14:32

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