July 22, 20169 yr Hi all, I'm new to this forum and Unraid, Im trying to set it up for the first time on my HP Gen8 microserver with a HP P222 raid controller, However, the hard drives wont show in the drop down list of drives Also, the SSD which is plugged into the motherboard controller shows up fine! My Setup: HP Gen8 Microserver Xeon Processor 16GB RAM On P222: 4x WD RED 2TB drives On build in controller: 1x Samsung EVO SSD Please help, I cant wait try this great software!
July 22, 20169 yr I'm not familiar with that controller, but does it have a BIOS you can get into on boot up? If so, set it to JBOD and reboot, the drives should then show up. You aren't supposed to use hardware raid controllers with unRAID, unRAID is software RAID and should be used with plain SATA controllers, not RAID controllers unless they offer JBOD.
July 22, 20169 yr Community Expert Well, my very quick search showed that it supports "RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, and RAID 6 and 60". None of these can be used with unRAID (The name says why!). You need a controller with JBOD support. You might want to start with this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12404.0
July 22, 20169 yr Author Hi both, Thanks for the replies, I have gone into the config of the controller and the nearest thing I can find is to set each drive to RAID0 but this still doesn't show them in unraid! + Cant believe unraid doesn't support such a mainstream card!
July 22, 20169 yr + Cant believe unraid doesn't support such a mainstream card! It's a RAID controller and, as Frank said, you need a controller with JBOD support. The are many mainstream controllers that unRAID doesn't support for that very reason but some of them can be re-flashed to replace their RAID firmware with JBOD firmware. If your card can be re-flashed in the same way it might well work. If not, you'll have to find an alternative.
July 22, 20169 yr Hi all, I'm new to this forum and Unraid, Im trying to set it up for the first time on my HP Gen8 microserver with a HP P222 raid controller, However, the hard drives wont show in the drop down list of drives Also, the SSD which is plugged into the motherboard controller shows up fine! My Setup: HP Gen8 Microserver Xeon Processor 16GB RAM On P222: 4x WD RED 2TB drives On build in controller: 1x Samsung EVO SSD Please help, I cant wait try this great software! I thought the built in controller is Smart Array B120i on gen8 microsever.Why are you using a separate raid card? The micro server only has four 3.5inch drive bays anyway. Just link all 4 drives to the built in smart array controller and set it in bios to System Options > SATA Controller Options Embedded SATA Configuration: Enable SATA AHCI Support Drive Write Cache: Disabled. The ssd will work as you have it in the sata port onboard normally reserved for dvd. I ran a gen 8 microserver for my first unraid box and disks worked fine like this
July 22, 20169 yr Author Hi, thanks for the replies, I have a P222 as the built in raid controller has only 2x 6Gb/s slots and the other two are 3Gb/s. I have now disabled the P222, and plugged the hard drives into the onboard port , BUT ITS STILL NOT SEEING IT??
July 22, 20169 yr Hi, thanks for the replies, I have a P222 as the built in raid controller has only 2x 6Gb/s slots and the other two are 3Gb/s. I have now disabled the P222, and plugged the hard drives into the onboard port , BUT ITS STILL NOT SEEING IT?? Have you changed the bios to Enable SATA AHCI Support?
July 22, 20169 yr Author Yes, Also, I'm looking at the dmesg grep SATA grep link bit and its showing that I have four sata links that are down! (SStatus 0 Scontrol 300) Does that mean anything?
July 22, 20169 yr Hi, thanks for the replies, I have a P222 as the built in raid controller has only 2x 6Gb/s slots and the other two are 3Gb/s. I have now disabled the P222, and plugged the hard drives into the onboard port , BUT ITS STILL NOT SEEING IT?? Please attach the diagnostics zip file. quietly if possible
July 22, 20169 yr Author Hi. Sorry for the caps, getting quite annoying now, haha, I have attached zip thanks, tower-diagnostics-20160722-1126.zip
July 22, 20169 yr Community Expert It appears the controller is correctly configured to AHCI, if no disks are detected check all cables, something is not connected as it should be.
July 23, 20169 yr Author Hi, Yea, I dd :-( I have just tried taking the p222 out of the server completely, still no joy! These drives have data and raid info on them as they were in a RAID0 array on the P222, does this make any difference?
July 23, 20169 yr Community Expert Can you see the drives at the BIOS level? If not then whatever is causing that will need to be resolved.
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