[clug] HP DL380 unrecognisable disks

David Schoen dave at lyte.id.au
Fri Aug 20 02:47:16 MDT 2010


On 20 August 2010 16:12, Adam Thomas <adam.lloyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 August 2010 15:45, Adrian <adrian.blake at ieee.org> wrote:
>> I am trying to install Ubuntu on and HP DL380 G3. It has a Smart Array 5300
>> SCSI controller.
>>
>> The CD boots but the hard disks are not recognised.
>>
>> Is it a BIOS setting or something in Ubuntu boot process.
>
> What have you tried already?
>
> Have you configured logical drives using the processes described here:
> http://docs.hp.com/en/J6369-90075/ch03s03.html
>
> From memory the drivers create the device nodes using it's own naming
> convention so they might be there just in a weird place. Are there any
> device nodes in /dev/cciss/?

You get /dev/cciss/c0d0 for the first logical raid device when using
hardware raid (the only way I use HP servers) on RHEL/CentOS 5.4/5.5.
Probably the same on Ubuntu. If you're not using hardware raid you
*might* get /dev/sd[abc...] for non hardware raid stuff.

That said I've only built stuff on G5 and 6 boxes so far.

Does 'dmesg | grep cciss' show anything?

Maybe check the raid config at boot time, it seems to involve pressing
f8 many times and a lot of luck, although I've only done such things
via iLom which seems to have a slower refresh than the post messages
are designed for :/


Cheers,
Dave


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