Doftorul

Confirming that slackware works seamlessly using the smartpqi driver with the HP P408i-a SR controller Gen 10, tested with ML350 Gen10, ML380 Gen 10 Kernels tested: basically the entire range of 4.19.xx Disks tested: SATA and SAS, either work, never tested mixes of SAS + SATA Can we still use the wiki to try and inject the smartpqi driver into the current UnRaid kernel ? https://wiki.unraid.net/Building_a_custom_kernel Is there a valid reason why this mainstream driver is removed ? Basically all Gen10 servers are shipped with the same family of controllers able to work in mixed mode RAID + HBA at the same time...

SMART seems to work properly, serial numbers are passed in full. i am reinstalling slackware again to check for the spin down and test some deep commands, too bad i didn't thought of checking that as well. In the meanwhile i installed proxmox on the servers but i am willing to dismantle one again for further tests. Will report back with the findings.

A clean Slackware install with the latest stable kernel can see and operate the disks with no issue. In the end it might be just the smartpqi driver support in the kernel. Not playing well is not a good enough answer there is a cause, at least in my case that seem to be lack of support in the unraidos kernel. Can i upgrade or otherwise use a different kernel for unraid ?

Greetings Unraiders ! I am struggling to run unraid basic on a couple of ML350 Gen10 that are equipped with the new P408i-a SR Gen 10 controller able to run in mixed mode (RAID + HBA) but the slackware kernel has no clue about the drivers to be able to drive the disks exposed. The old trick on exposing the disks as individual RAID0 arrays does not work either. Just for giggles i have booted the servers with RedHat and Ubuntu and the drives are visible to the OS. Edit: this new controller needs the smartpqi driver Any clues ?