ACU not detecting any supported controllers (ML370 G3) using SmartStartCD.

[Carl Ballenger]

I have a new ML370 G3 with (2) 64-bit Dual Channel-Wide Ultra3 SCSI Host Bus Adapters.

When using the SmartStartCD 6.10 release, and running the ACU it displays a message stating "ACU did not detect any supported controllers in your system".

Reading a bit of help docs, it said to make sure I have the proper drivers installed....so I proceeded to download the latest from HP.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated:)

Sincerely,

CB

[Tom Mucha_1]

Those Adapters are not considered array controllers. They are there for plain-jane stand alone scsi drives - being tape or disk.

[Theo Hill_1 · Accepted solution]

It seems the new way of building units is to make them as bare as possible, so you can just add the components you want. You must purchase a Smart array controller for RAID abilities in this system.

[Carl Ballenger]

Thanks for the quick response:) So, my next question is what piece of hardware will I need to configure Hardware RAID 5 for this server?

Thanks for your patience...:)

[Carl Ballenger]

Oh:) Just saw the other post. Thanks Theo.

[Carl Ballenger]

Ok, so what is the suggested array controller for the ML370 G3?

Thanks for the help....:)

[Tom Mucha_1]

Depends what you want. Either the 532 or one of the 5300 series should do you fine.

You can find the current lineup of SA controllers at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/index.html

[Gert Luyten]

I would wait for the SA-64x controllers which will be announced on Feb06. They support PCI-X, are U320 capable and have 128MB of RO cache (upgradable to RW cache).

Rgds,

Gert Luyten.