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At HP's Certification Matrices it is mentioned that there are no Smart Array B120i RAID controller drivers. It is suggested to use the controller in AHCI mode, use software RAID instead and forget about the HP maintenance tools. On the other hand

I’ve just installed a perfect-running HP Smart Array P212 in my server. HP Smart Array P212 hangs after firmware update. Install a system (regular linux. Ubuntu on HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9. If there is an issue with the information for this system. HP Dynamic Smart Array. * Reboot the machine and now you will be able to install the OS. BIOS HP: U20 (UEFI) Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit Available from ubuntu.com. Trying to install RHEL5-AS 64bit onto HP DL320 G6, with RAID being a mirrored array on the Smart Array B110i SATA controller. The RAID is configured.

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the HP ISS Linux Team provides the hpvsa propriety driver from HP;
the Software Delivery Repository provides the Management Component Pack for ProLiant, MCP.

Useful AskUbuntu questions are here and here; excellent setup description is available at Neowin.However, there is no indication that anybody ever managed to use the hpvsa drivers and MCP outside of HP.

Has anyone installed the drivers and successfully used the tools? I was trying to, but goofed it. It would help to see how the RAID is recognized by the OS. At which point is the array detected? What's the kernel message? What does hdparm -i say? smartctl --all?

Details on my failure:

I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS on the server's microSD card without problems (traditional way using external USB optical drive / USB stick since the intelligent provisioning thing did not provide the option to install Ubuntu) and installed parts of the MCP (since some packages contain unmet dependencies). hplog -t already provides some output:

Would have been great if this information would have been available to sensorsd. Other hplog options produce plausible output as well. So does hpasmcli -s 'show dimm'.

I am not sure in which mode the HDDs are used. BIOS configuration was set to RAID mode (RAID 1 volume for slots #3 and #4), but the OS provides access (fdisk, smartctl) to all individual disks -- which indicates that there is no RAID array? The logical volume was set up using the built-in Intelligent Provisioning system. The hpvsa drivers require kernel 3.13.0-32 while Ubuntu came with 3.16.0-45. I installed that kernel as well and was able to load the hpvsa module. Starting hpssa -local the system reported that no array controller was detected. Huh?

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I've installed 14.04.2 following the steps from the HP guide located at:

However, the HP logical volumes where not visile during the install process.

After installation, I've updated hpdsa and installed the Storage Administration (hpssacli) utility from here:

However, the hpssacli utility output is as follows:

Trying to get some info on the module:

lsmod lists the module:

I'll keep digging.

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I have a ProLiant DL360 G5. I would like to install Arch Linux onto this machine, but I'm experiencing the following difficulties:

I have booted Arch Linux installation CD, but I can't seem to access the hard drives (visibly, there are 6). There is a /dev/cciss/c0d0, but running fdisk c0d0; yields 'fdisk: cannot open c0d0: No such device or address'. There is /dev/sda{,1,2}, but they correspond to the installation media. There are no /dev/hd*. dmesg | grep -i cis yields 'HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.26)' and 'cciss 0000:06:00.0: cciss0: <0x3230> at PCI 0000:06:00.0 IRQ 24 using DAC'. lspci yields 'RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array Controller (rev 04)'.

I have no experience with ProLiant (or even other 'server room'-type machines). Hp 3210 all in one driver. Also, this is a used machine, and I don't have access to the original owners/configurators. One of the hard drives has an orange light showing on it in the front..should I take it out?

Based on my reading, the smart array drivers have been included in the linux kernel for a while now, but perhaps I need some drivers anyway?

Let me know if I need to provide any more information, and if you have any tips on getting archlinux installed onto this machine.

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I probably wouldn't be using ArchLinux, since as a distribution, it's not really in the realm of support of any of the hardware vendors I'm aware of. There are reasons Red Hat/CentOS, Debian and SuSE are vendor compatibility targets.

But the real issue here is the age of the server, coupled with the (presumed) newness of your ArchLinux distribution and kernel.

HP Smart Array RAID controllers used the Linux cciss Hp psc driver download. kernel driver for many years (~2001-2010). The corresponding block device was /dev/cciss/cXdY, where X is the controller, enumerated from 0 on, and Y the logical drive number.

This scheme changed with the introduction of the hpsa driver, which moved back to standard Linux SCSI /dev/sdX naming.

The newest Linux kernels have limited support for the older generation of HP controllers. See the following question:

In this situation, we need to know the health of your array. An orange or amber light indicates a failed disk. You can configure the RAID controller and logical drives at a basic level using the HP Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA). Press F8 when prompted during the server's POST process. Here's the related documentation.

In addition, you can use the offline HP Smart Storage Administrator or the HP Service Pack for ProLiant to run more initial configuration steps for the system and array. You'll also be able to update the system's firmware and a few other critical items if you use the latter.

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Either way, I'd remove the bad disk or work with the people who sold you the system to arrange for replacement. If the drive is failed, it won't be usable in the creation of a logical drive.

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