On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:29:58AM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > a HP Microserver Gen8 landed in my lap recently, but playing with the thing > last night > it looks like OpenBSD (latest available snapshot) doesn't play well with the > RAID controller. > > The symptoms are simply disks not seen, with one odd exception: Trying disks > from the > pile of old SATA units, one apparently had an old OpenBSD install on it, and > the system > did manage to boot from that when that disk was the only one in the system > (ie only one of > the four disk slots occupied). > > All other permutations end up with the disks seen by the RAID controller > (which comes > with an admin program that appears to be more or less a complete Linux > distribution and > a GUI that requires a mouse, to the extent that I spent some time rummaging > desk drawers > for a suitable USB mouse, in my case Sun branded but I digress) not > registered at all > by OpenBSD, as in only disk seen as available is sd0 which in my case was the > USB > thumbdrive with the bsd.rd on it. > > Any input on how to proceed appreciated, dmesg from the install to USB > thumbdrive follows > > - Peter
> unknown vendor 0x1590 product 0x005f (class memory subclass miscellaneous, > rev 0x00) at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured This a 3PAR (HP) vendor id, is it a card in the machine? > "Intel 6 Series RAID" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 not configured More likely you need to change this from RAID to AHCI mode in the bios. The kernel doesn't know about vendor metadata written by bios/vendor tools for software raid, and purposefully does not match Intel controllers in "RAID" mode.
