May 2, 201313 yr Hi,i have a HP N40L Microserver along with a HP410 RAID card running unRAID 4.7. My problem is with the H/D's connected to the P410 card, i cant see the drives in unRAID... the drives are visible in the HP rom config which u can access before booting into the o/s, but yeah unraid doesnt see anything:( am i missing something?? do i need to configure the p410 card, or configure unraid to use the p410 card instead of the microservers built in one?? sorry im all new to this
May 2, 201313 yr I don't know that unRAID can utilize the card. I have an N54L and the SFF cable is plugged into the motherboard. (no RAID card). unRAID sees the motherboard ports fine.
May 3, 201313 yr You can use the ports on the motherboard for the internal drives. Other then that, Ask Tom from limetech directly, maybe he can compile the driver for you. In my particular case, I used PCIe x1 eSATA cards for the two slots so that I could have 4 PMP capable eSATA ports.
May 3, 201313 yr Also see if you can configure the P410 to be in JBOD or PASS THROUGH mode. The only cards I know of that unRAID sees with RAID are the Areca and 3WARE cards. But then you loose the SMART access and spin control functionality.
May 6, 201313 yr I downloaded the HP documents for the 410 controller, and there is no mention of either JBOD or pass-through, so I doubt this card can work with UnRAID. I suppose it won't hurt to PM Tom to see if he happens to have a driver for it ... but I doubt it. You should, however, be able to use the motherboard ports and, in addition, add PCIe controller(s) to support any additional drives you want to add.
June 20, 201313 yr Author I downloaded the HP documents for the 410 controller, and there is no mention of either JBOD or pass-through, so I doubt this card can work with UnRAID. I suppose it won't hurt to PM Tom to see if he happens to have a driver for it ... but I doubt it. You should, however, be able to use the motherboard ports and, in addition, add PCIe controller(s) to support any additional drives you want to add. Tom??
June 20, 201313 yr I downloaded the HP documents for the 410 controller, and there is no mention of either JBOD or pass-through, so I doubt this card can work with UnRAID. I suppose it won't hurt to PM Tom to see if he happens to have a driver for it ... but I doubt it. You should, however, be able to use the motherboard ports and, in addition, add PCIe controller(s) to support any additional drives you want to add. Tom?? You're better off asking in the RC15a thread. He doesn't often venture in this section of the forum.
June 20, 201313 yr I downloaded the HP documents for the 410 controller, and there is no mention of either JBOD or pass-through, so I doubt this card can work with UnRAID. I suppose it won't hurt to PM Tom to see if he happens to have a driver for it ... but I doubt it. You should, however, be able to use the motherboard ports and, in addition, add PCIe controller(s) to support any additional drives you want to add. Tom?? You're better off asking in the RC15a thread. He doesn't often venture in this section of the forum. PM him or email him directly. The RC15a thread is for that release only and any off topic posts may be removed before it is reviewed. Tom's a pretty easy guy to work with. Send him a direct message. If you can do any form of leg work to show that it's a driver already in linux, it will speed up the process.
June 21, 201313 yr Author I will PM/Email him directly. What is his username on here?? I'm not sure who im meant to contact.. can't find any username "Tom" thanks for all your assistance guys!! Cheers Bevan
June 21, 201313 yr I will PM/Email him directly. What is his username on here?? I'm not sure who im meant to contact.. can't find any username "Tom" thanks for all your assistance guys!! Cheers Bevan Tom is "limetech", the creator/owner.
June 21, 201313 yr Even if you were able to use the P410 in unRAID, it looks like it would NOT be the best choice. From various forums, the following seem to be accurate... based on the latest available firmware, and by using the latest off-line configuration CD for the card... According to multiple forums, this card dose not have a JBOD mode, so multiple RAID 0 arrays would need to be created, one for each logical drive. Then, each single disk raid array could be used in a software RAID (or in this case an unRAID) array. The problem is that SMART and other disk diagnostics does not seem to be made available to the OS and disk failures are likely not going to be reported to the OS until a reboot is performed... This card is a very nice RAID controller, but a hardware RAID controller, not in JBOD (pass-through) mode, defeats the advantages that unRAID offers, and may put DATA at risk in the case of a failure. Some of the forum posts I found helpful in coming to this conclusion: http://forums.freenas.org/threads/best-solution-to-install-on-hp-dl180-g6-with-p410-raid-controller.7311/ http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/P410i-amp-JBOD/td-p/5210876#.UcPKq-e-rXA http://communities.vmware.com/thread/291210?start=0&tstart=0
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