Solaris 8 install: Compaq Smart Array 431 Controller

How do I get Solaris to recognize the Smart Array 431 controller? It can't find any suitable disks under installation.

I was also wondering why this support was removed since it was in 2.5.1, 2.6, and 2.7? I wish to upgrade my servers to 2.8 however no support for the Array controller. I looked around and Microsoft NT/2000 looks like the only NOS that still contains support for the Compaq Array Smart Controller (EISA). Is it because Microsoft is a Monopoly, or people buy it because they still support legacy hardware/software?

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Hello there.
We are running a DL180 G6 with a Smart Array P800 disc controller and 8 harddrives in RAID 5.
When logging into the server using HP System Management Homepage it states that the 'Accelerator' is disabled, and this accelerator have brought us lots of grief.
This particular disc controller are using two batteries to power a disk cache, and initially we interpreted this issue as coming from faulty batteries and replaced the first one, and then both.
This did not address the error message.
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Drive Write Cache: Disabled
Total Cache Size: 512 MB
No-Battery Write cache: Disabled
Cache Backup Power source: Batteries
Battery/Capacitor Count: 2
Battery/Capacitor Status: OK
SATA NCQ Supported: True
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Olof Nord
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Hi:
You may also want to post your question on the HP Business Support Forum -- DL Servers section.
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I have just installed Solaris 10 (x86) on a HP Proliant DL380 G4, this involved applying the driver updates for the RAID controller to allow the Solaris install to work (there have been lots of posts about the RAID controller driver being required for the install to work)
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SCSI Port 1, ID 3
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Hi:
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[SOLVED] Unable to boot after last upgrade [HP Smart Array]

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After last upgrade I'm unable to boot. I have fileserver with 2 discs in HP Smart Array RAID 1.
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Last edited by edke (2012-06-04 10:39:20)

Thank you for your quick reply.
DSpider wrote:First of all, have you tried the Fallback entry? Because initramfs-linux-fallback.img is supposed to have a full range of modules.
Of course, no change.
DSpider wrote:
Second, after editing /etc/mkinitcpio.conf you need to regenerate your initramfs.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/So … ID_and_LVM
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I appreciate anyone's assitance here.

I have attempted to mount a D130 disk array attached
to an E420R system running Solaris 10. This array has
three drives installed an formatted. I would like to
mount the three disks as one large storage partition.
It seems to me that I want a concatenated stripe but
I am not really sure.Either a concatenation or a stripe. I'm not sure what a concatenated stripe is.
Neither will offer redundancy. A concatenation can be more easily extended in the future, while a stripe would offer better performance in most situations.
metastat
d1: Concat/Stripe
Size: 106067120 blocks (50 GB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t4d0s6 9424 No Yes
Stripe 1:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t3d0s6 4712 No Yes
Stripe 2:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t2d0s6 4712 No YesSo a 3 column stripe totalling 50G.
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     Logical Drive 2 (1200 Gb, RAID 1+0)
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SAS Array C & Logical Drive 1  (1200 Gb, RAID 1+0)
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Thanks in advance,
Clive

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http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Disk-Array/bd-p/itrc-195

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