On 11/15/17 4:24 PM, Sam George wrote:

I also have a Proliant DL360p but it's an older Gen8.  My primary use
for it is a zfs supported file server under FreeBSD 11.1   The Gen8
P420i controller causes heartache under FreeBSD.  I finally gave up
trying to get direct access to the disks and gave a raid5 virtual disk
to zfs.

I'm not sure what your expectation was but the Smart Array hardware RAID controllers I've seen from HP are the same as IBM / Dell in the sense that the controller presents a logical disk to the host for all RAID configurations, RAID 0 or otherwise. Host access to a disk where the controller acts as just a HBA isn't possible. It's a purposeful design difference between a RAID controller and a HBA.

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John J.
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