I have seen some somewhat official recommendations from HPE to leave
such controllers in RAID mode and to then create an individual RAID 0
target for each disk.
It seems more complicated than is needed, but it's what they said to do
and it did seem to work.
Cheers
On 13/08/22 19:35, os...@fessel.org wrote:
Hej,
while trying to get rid of the issues with the mfii driver when running xen, i
popped in a H240 controller int o my DL380. This works fine, but there seems
to be no real driver for that Card. When running in RAID mode, ciss claims
this device and works. But I want to avoid double raid overhead (this runs
zfs), so I configured the controller to HBA-mode.
Obviously, the ciss driver now does not recognize the connected drives:
[ 1.000003] ciss1 at pci12 dev 0 function 0: HP Smart Array 10
[ 1.000003] ciss1: interrupting at msix6 vec 0
[ 1.000003] ciss1: 0 LDs, HW rev 1, FW 7.00/7.00, 64bit fifo rro, method
perf 0x20000005
[ 1.000003] scsibus2 at ciss1: 0 targets, 1 lun per target
Looks to me ciss only operated with the HP virtual disks.
Is there a driver for HBA mode on these cards?
Cheers
Oskar