[TriLUG] Server Distro on HP with SAS Drives

[Don Jerman via TriLUG]

It's a software RAID controller (c.f. winRAID) for which HP has a
proprietary driver.  You have to get it from HP or disable software RAID on
the controller in setup (press the key).  Presumably disabling the software
RAID will allow you to see the drives as JBOD and configure with linux
tools.  I'd expect the driver to work with CentOS but ymmv.  Not surprising
that CentOS doesn't include the non-free driver.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> It's a DL360e with a B320i RAID controller (configured as a single logical
> volume of 4 disks in a 1+0 RAID) that the configuration utility refers to
> as /dev/sda
>
> > what model ProLiant?
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I have an HP Proliant machine with SAS drives that I would like to bring
> >> online as an updated server.  After giving it a little thought, I
> >> decided
> >> to put CentOS on it, though I am not married to that distribution.
> >>
> >> I downloaded the ISO (note, the minimal ISO would not run, apparently
> >> due
> >> to missing drivers that are in the standard DVD version), verified the
> >> SHA
> >> SUM and verified the GPG signature on the sums (Thank's Mint).  The
> >> system
> >> would boot and the installation manager started.
> >>
> >> All appeared to be going well, until I realized it doesn't see any disks
> >> in the machine.  As I mentioned in the subject title, the machine has
> >> SAS
> >> drives.  It looks like Red Hat has removed a lot of functionality or
> >> even
> >> the drivers for the HP Smart Array Controller and as such it doesn't see
> >> any drives
> >> (
> >>
> http://vessokolev.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-install-centos-7-on-hp-proliant.html
> >> )
> >>
> >> The blog I linked to has instructions for what look like extracting the
> >> driver from an older Centos system, hacking the ISO image, and using it
> >> to
> >> install the newer version.
> >>
> >> My question(s) is (are): has anyone run into this and do you have a
> >> better
> >> solution or is there a distribution that does work with SAS drives?
> >>
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