mr416i-p WinPE storcli64 cannot change to good from online

[InsightAutomato]

I have an ML30 Gen10+ server with the mr416i-p controller.  I have a winpe iso that has the drivers for the storage and other toolkit drivers injected, and i can see the drives in my controller with storcli utility from WinPE. The Status of the 2 drives is "online", and I cannot for the life of me get the drives to go into a "ugood" status from WinPE. 

The storcli set good command returns with an error, saying the operation failed because it is not allowed on the 2 drives I have selected. Is this because they are in an online status therefore locked? If I go into BIOS and change them to Ugood, i can then boot to winpe and can add those drives to my R1 array i'm trying to create in this example., but we are trying to automate BIOS and Storage changes via winpe in an automated fashion.

What would be the reason I cannot change the status of the physical drives in winpe, via storcli64?

[shiva_jr]

Hi InsightAutomato,
On you post, I assume that StorCLI64 working well be winPE, you wish to make the disks in to UGOOD state. I am curious to understand the requirement for UGOOD state.
If you want to make the disk as UGOOD using StorCLI. you can try the following commands on 

./storcli64 /c0/sall show    #identify the disk and its ID
./storcli64 /c0/e251/s7>  set offline #make it offline
./storcli64 /c0/e251/s7 set missing #make it missing
./storcli64 /c0/e251/s7 set good force  #make it UGOOD force, if not working then make it jbod [./storcli64 /c0/e251/s7 set jbod ]

The format looks like : ./storCLI64 /c0/<enclosure id if any>/<disk number or ID> .
Here e251 is the enclosure and s7 is disk number or ID.

Regards,
Shiva_JR
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[InsightAutomato]

Thanks for the reply. 

The reason for UGOOD state requirement is because when drives say status "ONLN" (Online) they will not allow me to add the drives to any new virtual drive group when creating them in a RAID. When in BIOS i can set to UGOOD state for the physical disks, then boot to WinPE , and it will now allow me to add the drives to a new Virtual Drive group/RAID. 

However using StorCLI in WinPE, I cannot make the drives  go offline or missing because the return of the command is "Operation not allowed" on the drive.  It is stuck with "ONLN" (Online) status and not allowing me to create new Virtual Drive while the drives are in that state.

Also, I cannot set JBOD because it says controller does not support JBOD, so the drives are still stuck in online status. 

Any suggestions?  

[ksram]

Hi @InsightAutomato,

Could you please confirm the reason of using WinPE and if you can try installation of Supported OS directly, and then install the required Drivers and Utilities, and let us know the observations.