Thanks Joshua, yes I could attach the sas cables to the regular HBA, and it worked, but it caused "NMI detected" errors when trying to get to the configuration via ctrl+c , though booting and installing xstreamos did see all the jbod disks and it worked. I'm not feeling confident to use it though, because of that red screen on configuration. This was the LSI card anyway: http://www.wiredzone.com/supermicro-components-storage-controllers-sas2-sata-600-aoc-s2308l-l8e-10021897 I got back using the P420, with its own hardware raid configurations, and it works, it sees all the volumes correctly. I would like to make it a jbod card, looks like there should be a way, as seen here: https://hardforum.com/threads/hp-dl380p-gen8-p420i-controller-hbamode.1852528 What would you do? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sonicle S.r.l. : http://www.sonicle.com Music: http://www.gabrielebulfon.com Quantum Mechanics : http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gabrielebulfon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Da: Joshua M. Clulow Illumos Discussion Matteo Albinola Data: 7 aprile 2017 20.15.03 CEST Oggetto: Re: [discuss] HP ProLiant DL380e On 7 April 2017 at 01:38, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, I found exactly the problems you all stated with the P420 : setting them as single volumes will cause many headaches when disks are removed etc. Today I will be trying to install an LSI standard card into the DL380e and connect the disks backend to it, hoping to see them in JBOD mode. I'm not very sure they will be visible, because the backend may be customized to work with the P420... There should be SAS cables from the disk backplane that you can detach from the Smart Array and attach to some other HBA, like the LSI you've acquired. Which LSI part did you buy? Note that you will need to format the disks. The Smart Array logical volume format is almost certainly not something that will just work once you've moved to a regular HBA. To be clear: if you need any data from the machine, back it up somewhere else before unplugging the Smart Array controller. I've found a link (https://www.illumos.org/issues/1441 , at the bottom of the page) saying: "For HP ProLiant Gen8/8+ Servers, APIX should be disabled by adding the following to /etc/system: 'set apix_enable = 0'" This is a Gen8 machine : maybe this flag will open the hardware raid to the full size? No, that flag is not directly related to handling of disks or logical volumes in the system. I'm not 100% sure that advice is still current, either. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org
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