ProLIant DL380p Gen8 P420i. Not reading hard drives

[Roger123123]

Hello.

ProLIant DL380p Gen8 Servers equipped with P420i controller. Problem as follows; I bought a large quantity of HP Seagate ST450MP0035 779246-002 450-GB 15K 2.5 inch drives. BUT when i connect them, the server shows 0 drives. 

[Jimmy Vance]

Where does it show 0 drives? in the OS, in the array config utility?  Is the controller connected to the drive backplane? Drives new or used? You sure the drives are good?

[Roger123123]

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@Jimmy Vance wrote:

Where does it show 0 drives? in the OS, in the array config utility?  Is the controller connected to the drive backplane? Drives new or used? You sure the drives are good?

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The Drives are new, on boot it shows 0. When I open raid config, (F8) It shows 0 drives attached. I have tested the same slots with older drivers, the server see's them attached. I bought 9 drives, all 0 drives it does not see. Could it be something to do with block size being 520? (I was told this when i bought the drives)

[Torsten.]

yes, i am quite sure this is the reason. these drives are formatted for special disk arrays.

[Roger123123]

Any idea how to connect a SAS drive to USB. Inorder format them I would need to connect them somehow to a computer to change the block size. 

[Torsten.]

you may try to switch the controller into HBA mode.

[Roger123123]

Where can i find the HBA option to enable?