first of, sorry if this is in the wrong place.

 

now i have a old hp proliant dl380 g5,with a hp p400 raid controller. now this thing is slow.... so i would like to use unraid to manage the disks and my vm's. unraid works fine one my testbench without a raid controller. and i realy love it.

 

so now i want to use it on my "main" server.  but i can't seem to get unraid to detect any of my drives. not in unlisted mode, nor in raid 0 with only 1 drive. or any other from of raid...

 

any 1 that can help me with this? preferably without buying new gear.

 

otherwhys its just restalling windows or linux again and i continue using vmware....

 

sorry for my spelling btw

I would think the problem is that unRAID doesn't recognize the HP400 raid controller, so don't use it, buy an HBA such as a SUPERMICRO AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 or an IBM m1015. Both are available on Ebay and should do the job.

im not intending to buy a new controller, if i cant get this to work, it would be a shame but then i just use vmware witch will just work with the current hardware.

 

tx for the tip tho!

VMware and unRAID have different uses and purposes. I have a separate server for VMware and several that run unRAID. Sometimes trying to do everything on one box is simply not possible due to hardware restrictions like what you are experiencing. If VMware does everything you want, then why bother with unRAID at all?

VMware and unRAID have different uses and purposes. I have a separate server for VMware and several that run unRAID. Sometimes trying to do everything on one box is simply not possible due to hardware restrictions like what you are experiencing. If VMware does everything you want, then why bother with unRAID at all?

 

first off, im a student. and i like thinkering with stuff. sot thats reason 1 i want to use unraid.

2: i was hoping unraid would give less overhead

3: i love the way caching works in unraid

 

but yes vmware does what i need it to do, but i like the way unraid does it more.

then buy h220 hba and keep it in the hp family!

then buy h220 hba and keep it in the hp family!

 

im not intending to buy a new controller, if i cant get this to work, it would be a shame but then i just use vmware witch will just work with the current hardware.

 

tx for the tip tho!

then buy h220 hba and keep it in the hp family!

 

im not intending to buy a new controller, if i cant get this to work, it would be a shame but then i just use vmware witch will just work with the current hardware.

 

tx for the tip tho!

 

yes, I saw that. Don't let 50 bucks rob you of the unRaid experience.

well it wont rob me from it. it will just have to wait untill i build a proper home server then

 

and its more like 100 euros in belgium it would seem....