hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-06 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Dear OpenBSD users, We have a new hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 server with 2 x 1TB Hard disks. When we are going to install Open BSD 5.5 64 bit, Openbsd can't detect These 2 Hard disks ( 2 x 1 TB) These are 2 hard disks of 7.2 K SATA 1 TB It asks which is the Hard disk with this sign "? '" It does

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-06 Thread Jonathan Gray
That machine apparently ships with "Dynamic Smart Array B120i" which has a vendor specific software RAID mode. Looks like it only works on Linux with a closed source 'hpvsa' driver https://access.redhat.com/articles/118133 See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios. On Thu

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-06 Thread Søren Aurehøj
Den 07-08-2014 06:52, Indunil Jayasooriya skrev: Dear OpenBSD users, We have a new hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 server with 2 x 1TB Hard disks. When we are going to install Open BSD 5.5 64 bit, Openbsd can't detect These 2 Hard disks ( 2 x 1 TB) These are 2 hard disks of 7.2 K SATA 1 TB It asks w

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
> See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios. > > I switched to AHCI/SATA mode in BIOS. OpenBSD 5.5 64 bit Detected BOTH HARD DISKS. So I installed it. I now have 2 TB. On first disk, I partitioned /, swap , /usr and /var on the other 1 TB hard disk, I ju

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread David Coppa
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: >> See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios. >> >> > I switched to AHCI/SATA mode in BIOS. OpenBSD 5.5 64 bit Detected > BOTH HARD DISKS. So I installed it. > > I now have 2 TB. On first disk, I par

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Thorsten Bonck
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 02:08:02PM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > We got this server with 2 x 1 TB hard disks. Because we want a mirrored > Hard drive with 1 TB. But We got it WITHOUT getting it mirrored. > > We can tell the Hardware vendor to mirror this 2 hard disks. > > My question is af

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. > They are probably defaulting to "raid"-mode, which doesn't work under > OpenBSD. > i.e - does NOT this server's Hardware Raid (Mirror) work under OpenBSD? Will I have to go with Software RAID? > > > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards >

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Francois Pussault
-- > From: Indunil Jayasooriya > Sent: Thu Aug 07 15:21:59 CEST 2014 > To: Søren Aurehøj , misc > Subject: Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ? > > > Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. > > They are probably defaulting to "

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* Indunil Jayasooriya [2014-08-07 15:23]: > Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. > > They are probably defaulting to "raid"-mode, which doesn't work under > > OpenBSD. > i.e - does NOT this server's Hardware Raid (Mirror) work under > OpenBSD? Will I have to go with Software RAID?

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
If so just not use the fake-raid, disable it, and use soft-raid from BSD. > If used soft-raid from BSD, does it consume more RAM or processing functions etc? I will have to use this server for PF , OpenVPN , Squid, Postfix or Sendmail and Apache etc.. > Therfore I can't beleive HP pro

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Francois Pussault
Soft RAID is nearly transparent, low cpu or ram use, it uses some cpu but as you know 99% of time CPU just wait for bus... PF+VPN+SQUID+POSTFIX+SENDMAIL+APACHE+PHP classical webapp/mail server ? I guess ? you may have enough memory with 4Gohigher memory is always better of course... Indun

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread David Dahlberg
Am Donnerstag, den 07.08.2014, 18:51 +0530 schrieb Indunil Jayasooriya: > Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. > > They are probably defaulting to "raid"-mode, which doesn't work under > > OpenBSD. > > > i.e - does NOT this server's Hardware Raid (Mirror) work under > OpenBSD? Wil

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/07/14 22:56, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > If used soft-raid from BSD, does it consume more RAM or processing > functions etc? Than a good RAID card? of course. significantly more? probably not. > I will have to use this server for PF , OpenVPN , Squid, Postfix or > Sendmail and Ap

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-08 Thread Matthias Appel
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] Im > Auftrag von Nick Holland > Gesendet: Freitag, 8. August 2014 13:35 > An: misc@openbsd.org > Betreff: Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ? > > On

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Shockley
On 8/8/2014 7:54 AM, Matthias Appel wrote: "HP Dynamic Smart Array is a RAID solution combining a storage host bus adapter (HBA) and proprietary software components." You don't want to use this...hell, nobody should want to use this! The theory behind these fakeraid controllers is that you c