cpayne Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Hi, I recently decided to migrate my unraid setup from an old desktop system over to an HP storageworks server that I had laying around. I've run into a couple issues so far, first of all my data needed to be backed up entirerly first as I was certain I would lose it if I didnt, second issue is that the server does not have any onboard ports for me to plug the backplane directly to the motherboard, so i've decided to try making multiple RAID0 containing only one drive each to get around this issue, so far all is working and unraid sees the different raids, but now i've noticed that its not able to read any of the SMART data like this. Any suggestions? The server has an old HP Smart Array P212 card currently. I'd be willing to purchase a replacement card if it allows me to get this to work, as what im getting from this is that if a drive starts failing right now, unraid wont know it and I could end up losing files or some of them may become corrupted. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 RAID controllers are not recommended, and you'll run into trouble if you need to replace it with a different controller, but SMART might be available if you choose the correct default SMART controller type on Settings -> Disk Settings -> Global SMART Settings, try HP cciss. Quote Link to comment
cpayne Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 Hi, Thanks for the response, completely overlooked that fact... Any recommendations on what SAS card I could get to allow passtrough to the board or a card that can be placed in JBOD? Quote Link to comment
sota Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) HP H240 or other H-series controller works great. The P-series controllers are more for actual RAID work. Edited April 12, 2020 by sota Quote Link to comment
cpayne Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 So I found one on Ebay called the HP H240ar 12Gb 2-ports Int Smart Host Bus Adapter. Do you think this one would be a valid replacement? Something that im unsure though is that the HP server I have has 12 drive bays running through one cable, will that still work with this card? Quote Link to comment
RogueWolf33 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Hi there. I was able to get the HP P240 switched over to HBA mode and it is allowing Passthrough of my drives. Might be worth a read: Quote Link to comment
sota Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 On 4/12/2020 at 1:58 PM, cpayne said: So I found one on Ebay called the HP H240ar 12Gb 2-ports Int Smart Host Bus Adapter. Do you think this one would be a valid replacement? Something that im unsure though is that the HP server I have has 12 drive bays running through one cable, will that still work with this card? NEGATIVE. the AR variants don't plug into PCIe slots. They plug into something called "Flexible smart host bus controller" that appeared in the Gen9 servers. you need the NON-AR variant. Quote Link to comment
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