HP Proliant 150ML G5 SBS 2008 setup problem

[Sirik Goossens]

I have installed the 1.28.03 driver provided by LSi as discussed earlier.
The system didnt accepted it at first as being a newer (and better) driver. I had to force the installation.

After that I have started some hd benchmarks with hdtune pro with 1 positive result and quickly after that the same system freeze and red light blinking.
Seems this didnt solve the issue yet.

Back to HP and replacing the card with an E200.

[Michal Cheben.]

what BIOS/FW do you have?

[Jeroen_Kleen]

Michal, Good point. You should have: FW SC40ge: 06.18.05.00 (1.23.42.00) (27 Oct 2008)
available on URL: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-86ea6c7f49db4e82a0fb1b5dc8〈=en&cc=us&idx=0&mode=4&

[Michal Cheben.]

or he can try FW/bios from LSI, flashing works from boot diskette/usb or from LSI raid manager (prefering only boot disk)

[Sirik Goossens]

I have verified BIOS/FW on the LSi raid card.
Showing MPTBIOS-6.18.05.00, so that should be the latest.

Also the BIOS of the ML150G5 itself is on version 017 (03/08/2008), which is the latest I believe.

[Michal Cheben.]

hmm, strange, try this bios/fw:
http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/support/downloads/hbas/sas/SAS3041E.zip

I have HP bios/fw on controllers, so this is not tested situation (by me).
What kind of hdd (p/n) do you have?

[Sirik Goossens]

Seems odd we have different behaviour at the moment.

Part numbers on the harddisk in (both) systems are as follows;
2x 376594-001 (72GB SAS 15k) in RAID1
2x 395501-002 (500GB SATA) in RAID1

Leaving the office now for some weekend, will continue this monday the earliest.

[Michal Cheben.]

same 500gb hdds in my config, I'll prepare some hdd test to figure out if my config freeze under synthetic load

[Michal Cheben.]

unfortunatelly freeze, after 4 days of synthetic load, the ugly red LED shines :(

[Muhanad Omar]

Has anyone found a working solution for this problem yet? I just purchased a HP ProLiant ML150 G5 2 weeks ago and have been experiencing the same issue with the red light. I also have two SATA disks, RAID I, LSI SAS 1064E running on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I've tried installing the FW and BIOS updates you all have suggested but nothing has worked.. it eventually freezes up. If all else fails, I'm selling this server and switching to Dell for good!