John R Pierce wrote: > 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? All HP, as far as I know. mark