I bought two DL140 G3 servers in May this year - part numbers 470064-432.
I have successfully set up a pair of hard disks in the BIOS RAID setup as a mirrored (RAID1) pair but i cannot find the software to install within windows to monitor the health of the RAID array. This is essential.
I am using Windows 2008 Server x64 edition.
I don't know if it helps but the Device Manager reports that the storage controller is "Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID".
Where can i get the software - there's nothing on the downloads for this server except "Proliant Array Configuration Utility for WIndows" but when you run this is says it can't find a supported storage controller.
this one installed ok (despite the fact that is says its for WS03 not WS08). However when i run it, it finds a controller but gives an error saying "comands are not responding: controller 1".
uninstalled all the others and then installed the adaptec one. It install fine but when you run it says :- Controller 1 (not responding) RAID controller
If you look at the detail of the error it says: Commands are not responding : controller 1
I tried disabling the firewall in case that was the problem but it made no difference.
It seems to me that there's a common theme with each of the different manager's i've tried - they can't communicate with the controller. This suggests to me that it may be a driver issue - as presumably the managers are trying to communicate with the RAID driver.
The driver calls itself "Adaptec Serial ATA HostRAID" in device manager. On the driver tab it reports v 1.6.6.2 date 27/4/2007. In driver detail it says file: adpahci.sys by: Adaptec Inc File version: 1.6.0006.1 (1.070222-1720)
