On 3/12/2014 2:21 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Hang on - here's something you might be interested in: I just rebuilt a > DL380 G5 from XP Server (!) to CentOS 6.5. After I installed hpacucli, and > tried to configure the attached RAID box... and*boy* was that screwed up. > I have 25 drives in the RAID box. But hpacucli showed me drives in bays > 9-17*twice*, then the rest as singletons. I rebooted, and used the > firmware, and it reported the same thing, meaning there's crap in that > thar code. However, I was able to configure it the way we wanted - 24 > drives RAID 6, one hot spare, because in the firmware, it offers the > drives with check boxes, so regardless of what where it*says* they are, I > could check what I wanted, and that worked correctly. are you using non-HP drives? is this dual ported SAS with SAS drives? or what? -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast