Also, if you just update the firmware, you might be able to turn it on with the HPE Smart Storage Administrator. You can use the HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) to update, then download individual exes to get the bios and storage controllers up to date. It was not hard for me. I have two HPE ProLiant 360 Gen9 servers and it was a breeze.
[TUTORIAL] Hp smart array p420i HBA mode complete guide.
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Confirmed working on HP DL360p G8 with P420i on firmware 8.32 (latest).
A few notes that might help someone:
1. The controller automatically creates a temporary logical volume when it detects a disk. You MUST delete all logical volumes before enabling HBA mode or you'll get "operation not supported" error, example:
2. When you have you logical volumes clean, you can activate HBA:
3. I didn't know about this, but in a Arch liveiso, you can expand space right into the liveiso remounting
4. Also, ssacli-bin (AUR) its broken, the comments post a fix, you need to download PKGBUILD, and change the version to "v6.45_8.0" and the b2sum and install with "makepkg -si", so, i can also confirm its work with ssacli 6.45.
After reboot, POST shows "Hardware RAID is disabled via NVRAM config" or something like that. So, still working ^^
Thanks for the guide! 10/10
A few notes that might help someone:
1. The controller automatically creates a temporary logical volume when it detects a disk. You MUST delete all logical volumes before enabling HBA mode or you'll get "operation not supported" error, example:
ssacli ctrl slot=0 ld 1 delete forced2. When you have you logical volumes clean, you can activate HBA:
ssacli ctrl slot=0 modify hbamode=on3. I didn't know about this, but in a Arch liveiso, you can expand space right into the liveiso remounting
mount -o remount,size=2G /run/archiso/cowspace4. Also, ssacli-bin (AUR) its broken, the comments post a fix, you need to download PKGBUILD, and change the version to "v6.45_8.0" and the b2sum and install with "makepkg -si", so, i can also confirm its work with ssacli 6.45.
After reboot, POST shows "Hardware RAID is disabled via NVRAM config" or something like that. So, still working ^^
Thanks for the guide! 10/10
