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)?
Best Answer
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