Comments on: Installation of CentOS on a server with a SmartRAID V controller http://linuxforfun.net/2008/03/04/smartraid-centos/ Just for Fun Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nick http://linuxforfun.net/2008/03/04/smartraid-centos/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Nick Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:09:09 +0000 http://linuxforfun.net/2008/03/04/installation-of-centos-51-on-an-old-machine-with-a-smartraid-v-controller/#comment-3 If you load both i2o_block and i2o_scsi, then the CentOS installer will see both /dev/i2o/hda and the individual /dev/sda and so on. I found that by only using i2o_block, the individual scsi devices would remain obfuscated from the OS, preventing accidental damage to the RAID container. If you load both i2o_block and i2o_scsi, then the CentOS installer will see both /dev/i2o/hda and the individual /dev/sda and so on.

I found that by only using i2o_block, the individual scsi devices would remain obfuscated from the OS, preventing accidental damage to the RAID container.

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