dl180g5 sas disks not seen

[ATATUR]

Hi all,

Although we installed the E200 array controller in one of the PCI riser card slots on the main board of DL180G5, firmware says there are no disks available. I suspect that a sas cable is missing from E200 to the disks and I'm not sure there is really a cable?

[KarloChacon]

hi ATATUR

yes there must be a cable from controller e200 to HDDs backplane

Part number

464830-B21

if you are going to use just for 4 HDDs you need 1 but if you are going to use more that 4 HDDs you need 2 cables.

like a day a I had that cable in my hands ;-) doing the same installing a e200 in a Dl180 g5

source
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12903_div/12903_div.html#Options

regards

[KarloChacon]

oh hoh ATATUR

just in case because I had this "issue"

I had the correct cables and connection was fine but when I accessed F8 to get into array configuration utility

there are 3 option

- Create logical drive
- View logical drive
- Delete Logical drive
(attached picture)

I remember I selected "Create logical drive" and I got:

"NO logical driver available" so I could not create the array

so I selected " View logical drive" in menu and found my HDDs had an RAID configured(maybe HDDs taken from another server...) so I went to "Delete Logical drive" and deleted RAID and I was able to see and create the RAID level I wanted with "Create logical drive"


curious I was thinking I had a bad cable - controller or backplane but not It only was that my HDDs were configured and until I deleted that information I was able to see the and create a new RAID

Regards

[ATATUR]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll check with my server tomorrow and then I hopefully close this thread..

[ATATUR]

Turns out to be a missing order, thanks everyone especially Carlo.

[ATATUR]

I stated the reason why I close this thread in my last post.