[CentOS] CentOS 5.x and HP ACU CLI

Wed Mar 12 22:01:54 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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.

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