The Dreaded HPE P822

[mixhali]

OK ive read plenty of threads on how this isn't the best card for truenass however this is strictly a lab environment and i don't intend to store any valuable data or expect high performance.

My issue is i just cant get the card to present any disks to truenas in either conventional raid mode with 8 raid 0 logical drives configured or HBA mode.

I have booted a windows disk in both modes and have cleaned the drives. Still nothing presented.

Camcontrol devlist only shows the disks i have connected to the Sata controller on the server

<KINGSTON SA400S37480G SBFKB1H5> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 2.00 0001> at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (ses0,pass1)
<WDC WDS200T2G0A-00JH30 UP450400> at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass2)
<WDC WDS200T2G0A-00JH30 UP450400> at scbus8 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass3)
<WDC WDS200T2G0A-00JH30 UP450400> at scbus9 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass4)
<WDC WDS200T2G0A-00JH30 UP450400> at scbus10 target 0 lun 0 (ada4,pass5)
<WDC WDS200T2G0A-00JH30 UP450400> at scbus11 target 0 lun 0 (ada5,pass6)
<WDC WDS200T2G0A-00JH30 UP450400> at scbus12 target 0 lun 0 (ada6,pass7)
<AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 2.00 0001> at scbus15 target 0 lun 0 (ses1,pass8)
<Generic- SD/MMC CRW 1.00> at scbus16 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass9)

pciconf -lv |grep -B 4 -i storage shows:


device = 'C620 Series Chipset Family MROM 0'
ahci0@pci0:0:17:5: class=0x010601 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0xa1d2 subvendor=0x1590 subdevice=0x00eb
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'C620 Series Chipset Family SSATA Controller [AHCI mode]'
class = mass storage
--
class = simple comms
ahci1@pci0:0:23:0: class=0x010601 rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0xa182 subvendor=0x1590 subdevice=0x00eb
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'C620 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode]'
class = mass storage
--
class = base peripheral
none228@pci0:176:0:0: class=0x010400 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x103c device=0x323b subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x3353
vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard Company'
device = 'Smart Array Gen8 Controllers'
class = mass storage


So the controller is clearly there. What am i missing?

The server is a HPE DL380 Gen 10 with 256GB Ram and dual Gold 6138 CPUs

The P822 has 8 1.9TB SSD connected. I have also tried conventional 900gb 10K Drives, all HPE

Regards

 

[Arwen]

At a guess, TrueNAS does not include the device drive for that hardware RAID card.

I would also suggest posting in FreeBSD forums and HP forums.

Many people here just don't use hardware RAID, or used it in the distant past. So we may not have any useful advice for you. (And maybe a few that take the attitude of "See, HW RAID is not suitable for TrueNAS"...)

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

I did get it to "work" on an older version of TrueNAS, but it was a giant pain to do so. Also, it was super easy to replace the P822 with a very inexpensive (like ~= $20 on eBay) LSI 9207-8i. It used the same kind of cables, so the switch was easy. That worked great for me. To steal one of my wife's favorite sayings, you are "trying to make fetch happen" with the P822.