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

Wed Oct 7 17:06:26 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz