[CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

[Jack Bailey]

On 10/07/15 10:06, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/7/2015 8:42 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>     Got an old HP box with a P800 Smart Array controller. The HP RAID 
>> box
>> plugged into it's failing, and we got a new JetStor. Anyone know if we
>> can just plug the JetStor in and set it to passthrough, or if we have
>> to use the P800's firmware to set up the RAID, or other gotchas?
>>
>> I*think*  we could use the RAID boxes firmware to build the RAID, but 
>> last
>> resort would be passthrough, and Linux RAID.
>
> I'm not familiar with JetStor, but a P800 is a older high end SAS raid
> controller that expects to talk to individual SAS or SATA drives. you
> can manage it with hpssacli from centos.
>

I have the P822.  It has no JBOD or RAID 0.  hpacucli works with CentOS 
7.0, but is broken on 7.1 -- it cannot find the controller.

Jack