Re: HPE H240 in HBA mode

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

I have seen some somewhat official recommendations from HPE to leave 
such controllers in RAID mode and to then create an individual RAID 0 
target for each disk.

It seems more complicated than is needed, but it's what they said to do 
and it did seem to work.

Cheers

On 13/08/22 19:35, oskar%fessel.org@localhost wrote:
> Hej,
> while trying to get rid of the issues with the mfii driver when running xen, i popped in a H240 controller int o my DL380.  This works fine, but there seems to be no real driver for that Card.  When running in RAID mode, ciss claims this device and works.  But I want to avoid double raid overhead (this runs zfs), so I configured the controller to HBA-mode.
>
> Obviously, the ciss driver now does not recognize the connected drives:
> [     1.000003] ciss1 at pci12 dev 0 function 0: HP Smart Array 10
> [     1.000003] ciss1: interrupting at msix6 vec 0
> [     1.000003] ciss1: 0 LDs, HW rev 1, FW 7.00/7.00, 64bit fifo rro, method perf 0x20000005
> [     1.000003] scsibus2 at ciss1: 0 targets, 1 lun per target
> Looks to me ciss only operated with the HP virtual disks.
> Is there a driver for HBA mode on these cards?
>
> Cheers
> 	Oskar