Integrated SATA Raid on ML310G5

[Dave Wooder]

Just received a new ML310G5 with a couple of SATA Drives im trying to create as a mirrored pair. When i enable RAID in the bios i can configure my mirror and see it come up in POST but smartstart says ive got no bootable volumes and stops.
If i disable RAID i can run smartstart but see the drives as 2 separate ones and cant set them as a mirror. Software mirroring in windows is a no-go for me.

Been reading that there are some restrictions with SATA drives on the integrated controller on the ML310's eg the LED's dont work but as far as i can see it should support RAID 0,1?

I can see 2 controllers in bios but have tried setting both as the 1st boot to no avail

Any thoughts anyone?

Rgds
Dave

[Blazhev_1]

Hi,

smartstart don't support the onboard SATA controller.
You can make a mirror with F8 when the controller is initialized and then to manually install the OS, giving the RAID driver with F6.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3580655&prodNameId=3580656&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-0dbf82cb9fd24c929b6bdb4da7&mode=3

Pac

[YAQUB_1]

After RAID 1+0 configure U check the view status, because it successfully configured.

And follow "PAC" process.

Thanks--Yaqub
HP Support!!!

[Dave Wooder]

Only just got back to this, have downloaded the drivers and all up and running now.
Thanks for your help, nice of them not to include in smartstart!

rgds
Dave