Access ORCA on P410i?

[wgsa]

Hello.

Is it possible to switch p410i or p411 to HBA mode on proliant server without EFI shell ?

[Torsten.]

No HBA mode for proliants, the controllers have different firmware.

[anthony11]

So for anyone stumbling across this thread:

HP has their hpacuoffline bootable ISO that can be used to run the graphical ACU utility for configuring Smart Array controllers and volumes before/without an OS is running.  If one wants to eg. use ZFS instead of HBA RAID, one strategy is to configure each physical disk as a single-disk RAID0 volume, which the OS can then see.

[wgsa]

Thank you for fast reply.

I compaired sandman.bin from integrity firmware with same version from regular - there is no binary difference. I flashed integrity firmware to my controller and it works fine. 

Also I tried last integrity version 6.22b0 wich should have toggle mode entry in ORCA but It have not appeared there.

I tried on both p411 and p410i controllers.

I suppose firmware difference is not a reason I can't toggle the mode.

Some kind of Company politics?... ;-)

[Torsten.]

>> I compaired sandman.bin from integrity firmware with same version from regular


AFAIK there was never a same version for them. The version numbers were always different.

[wgsa]

I found couple of older same versions and compaired them.
I flashed this firmware image (for integrity servers) to my p410i and p411 installed in proliant server. No new ORCA entry.
Controllers work fine, so this firmware is suitable.
I suppose there is no hardware difference between p411 for integrity and regular p411 cards.
I found a help entry inside labels in firmware image contents:
"set hba_mode on|off"
But I can't find where I should enter this command. Nor ORCA CLI nor HPACUCLI does not accept it.
BTW such strings are also in "regular p411 firmwares"

[wgsa]

Sorry forgot the link...

by "this firmware" I meant this:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=3886974&swItem=ux-116282-2&prodNameId=3886976&swEnvOID=4001&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=3

[Torsten.]

On Integrity ORCA says "Configuration for Arrays, version 3.50" with firmware 6.22.

How about on your machine?

[wgsa]

I have attached screenshots.

Also I found versions I compaired binaries:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=4186428&swItem=MTX-c949e41af8ad48629d8bf4d82f&prodNameId=4204753&swEnvOID=54&swLang=13&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1

and

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=3886974&prodNameId=3886976&swEnvOID=54&swLang=8&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-0a3ad21cebc4426ba025b49ce1&mode=3

[Torsten.]

No idea, but maybe the firmware loader is bringing different versions of ORCA in place, depending on the platform?