Trouble with HP Proliant DL145 G2

[Pavol Èierny]

Hi,

I've got some question off this issue... but it's about DL145 ...

Did you manage to get iLO working while FreeBSD running?

I'm experiencing on Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX220 and Sun Fire X2200
while running FreeBSD, the remote management stops responding after detecting
the NICs...

Thanks for any info...

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Best regards
Pavol Èierny


> Hi Eugene,

>> Hi, All!
>>
>> Some time ago I got a new HP Proliant DL 145 G2 with 2 SATA disks.
>> During its first boot I saw that it doesn't support hardware array,
>> but there was a message on the screen 'nVivia IDE RAID' or something
>> like that and the next message was about having an array of 2 disks.
>>
>> So I was to involve using GMIRROR with my FreeBSD 6.1 box. And
>> recently, after cold power off, one of its disks failed. So the fact
>> of the matter is to find out, is there a hardware RAID 1 support or
>> not and if not what is the messages shown above?

> At first I thought the chipset (nForce Pro) used for the DL145 G2 supports
> nVidia's RAID, but HP chose not to implement it.  HP doesn't list RAID
> capability in any of the documentation, and I was never able to access a
> utility to configure it.  Now that I research it a bit further, it seems
> somewhat more complicated.

> It looks as though nvRAID might be some kind of fake RAID, which is a kind
> of quasi hardware/software RAID.  Basic functionality is incorporated into
> the hardware, but other functions are performed by the driver.  You can find
> some info here
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#nvidia and here 
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#fakeraid.  It sounds as though
> you'd be better served by implementing your own RAID rather than using the
> nvRAID, which is fortunate, since nVidia hasn't released FreeBSD drivers
> anyway.

> Hope that helps,

> Kelly Lesperance 

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