Proliant ML110 G5 Storage Controller Software

[Jimmy Vance]

Ken, for Linux you don't have to mark the array as bootable.

Excentus, not sure what your issue was/is, the drivers didn't wipe out the motherboard.

When you boot Red Hat and using the DUD image, what are you specifying on the boot line? You should be using

boot: linux updates dd

You should be using this DUD image if your installing the x86 version

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3580694&prodNameId=3580695&swEnvOID=2025&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-3f4a3898e9d84ae2b11e8c1963

Or this DUD image if your installing the x86_64 version

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3580694&prodNameId=3580695&swEnvOID=2026&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-1544020305874844944782e65e

[Excentus, Corp]

Finally was able to get hrconf to work. Dropped driver onto a usb jump drive. Booted from the RHEL4qu6 disk 1 with "linux dd". When asked for a driver it found the right driver on the usb drive. Loaded the OS, rebooted, moved hrconf file to the unit and ran ./hrconf getstatus 1 and there it was.

Somewhere in trying to get the driver to a floppy is where the issues lies. You have to load the correct driver during install or it will not work. Updating will not work, or at least for us it would not.

[Jimmy Vance]

Glad you got it working. Now just keep in mind you won't be able do a kernel update until a driver comes out that supports the new kernel.

The alternative is to just use the drives as two seperate disks and setup RAID using the OS

[Duncan Clay]

Mar 27, 2008 19:32:46 GMT Unassigned

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I can confirm that Windows Server 2008 works on the SATA RAID 1 configuration.

Ken


I tried downgrading the BIOS and reinstalling but Windows 2008 still won't boot after completing the install with the Windows 2003 driver.

[Ken Kwan]

Duncan,

I just went through this process again and one thing I noticed is that if the USB key used to install the SATA RAID Driver is still in server after loading the driver, the O/S gets confused and cannot see a system partition.

Be sure to remove the USB key after loading the driver and selecting the partition but before beginning the install process.

Also be sure you are using this driver:

HP Embedded G5 SATA RAID Controller Driver for Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions

Type: Driver - Storage Controller
Version: 1.4.17015.0 (18 Jan 2008)
Operating System(s):
File name: cp008698.exe (736 KB)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3577708&prodNameId=3577715&swEnvOID=1113&swLang=8&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-4810d57f44f74d8cbe18413697&mode=3

Good luck.

Ken

[Glen N. Peters]

I am working with a ProLiant ML310 G5 and trying to install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32 bit edition and having trouble with setup not recognizing the RAID array (2 drives - RAID 1). Will this 2003 driver idea work for 32 bit edition?

[Duncan Clay]

Success - the Windows 2003 64bit driver listed by Ken does work with Windows 2008 64bit. Thanks Ken.

Glen - the Windows 2003 32bit driver from the CD or from the HP Windows 2003 driver download page is needed to get the RAID recognized in setup. The setup will continue until the next reboot which will blue screen.

[Duncan Clay]

I finally have Windows 2008 32-bit running on the HP Embedded G5 (Adaptec) SATA RAID controller with RAID enabled! The clue was in the previous reply where the working 64-bit driver is version 1.4.17015.0.

The Windows 2003 32-bit and 64-bit drivers listed on the ML110 G5 downloads page are version 1.4.17010.0 which blue screens in Windows 2008 (there are no drivers listed on the Windows 2008 32-bit and 64-bit pages). However the drivers listed on the DL160G5 Windows 2003 32-bit page is version 1.4.17015.0 which works on Windows 2008 32-bit for the ML110 G5. :)

Here is the direct link to the download page http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-0dbf82cb9fd24c929b6bdb4da7

[Ramon Lozano]

Hi,
I have a ML110 runing on CentOS 5.2 with kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 SMP x86_64, and I noticed it was very slow. After some tests with hdparm and some web searching I discovered that the embedded Intel SATA controller needs a binary driver from HP.
After some more searching I found the driver aarahci-1.4.17015-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm, but I see you need an old kernel (2.6.18-53.el5 or older). I haven't been able to find such old kernels. I suppose you won't release your source, but could you please send me the binary version that suits my kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.x86_64, or maybe for kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64??

Thank you

[Chris Bedford]

@ Duncan Clay:-

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Windows Server 2003 with SP2 does not need a driver.
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Ummm... yes it does :-( I just verified this by booting with a W2K3 SP2 install disk, and letting it start the load all by itself. At the first [Enter to continue] screen, I get "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer [...] Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3".

And just for the record, before the above I tried the post install method (get Windows running on a single disk, then enable RAID & build the RAID set from the installed OS) - starts to load Windows, gets as far as the logo screen before one of those sub-half-second BSoDs and a reboot.

Who knows how to emulate a floppy on a USB memory stick? I mean one that the DOS phase of Setup will recognise? I have a bootable USB key that, once the computer is running, looks like a 1.44 MB C: drive, and that doesn't work at the Windows F6 - "S" stage.

Chris