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= HP/Compaq !SmartArray series =
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= 1. Vendor information =

Theses HP/Compaq cards are usually well supported on Linux.[[BR]]
HP supports Linux and provide an '''opensource kernel driver''' which has been part of Linux for ages.

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= 2. Linux kernel drivers =

There is only one drivers to handle all cards:
|| Driver || Supported cards ||
|| cciss || All !SmartArray ||

You should not expect any problems with theses drivers which are known to be '''mature''' and '''stable'''.[[BR]]
We don't know any current Linux distrubtion which miss theses drivers so no additional step should be required to get it working.

However this driver doesn't you the regular SCSI stack, so don't expect to find your logical drives as /dev/sdX.[[BR]]
Here is an example:
{{{
vmware:~# ls -lah /dev/cciss/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     160 2008-08-28 14:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root    3,1K 2008-08-28 14:36 ..
brw-rw----  1 root disk 104,  0 2008-08-28 14:36 c0d0
brw-rw----  1 root disk 104,  1 2008-08-28 14:36 c0d0p1
brw-rw----  1 root disk 104,  2 2008-08-28 14:36 c0d0p2
brw-rw----  1 root disk 104,  3 2008-08-28 14:36 c0d0p3
brw-rw----  1 root disk 104, 16 2008-08-28 14:36 c0d1
brw-rw----  1 root disk 104, 17 2008-08-28 14:36 c0d1p1
}}}

''/dev/c0d0'' means logical drive 0 on controller 0. ''/dev/c0d0p1'' means first partition of logical drive 0 on controller 0.[[BR]]
In exemple ''/dev/sda'' is ''/dev/c0d0'' here. ''/dev/sdb1'' is ''/dev/c0d1p1''.