HP ProLiant ML115 G5 and PERC 6i Controller woes

unclepablo · 3 Jun 2010 at 23:33

Hi, I wonder if any of you can help me please?

I brought an HP ML115 G5 to play with ESX4i in the home lab.

I wanted to use a grown-up RAID card so got a PERC6/i and installed in the PCI-E x8 slot.

When I try to go into the RAID card BIOS (CTRL-R) it hangs at "Initializing-HA" stage.

I've tried it in the x16 PCI-E but it's the same.

Annoyingly, card works fine in old Asus P35 board :rolleyes:

I've checked the firmware and it's the latest for this card (1.22.02.0612)

Read lots about this box and PERC 5 controllers but not 6. It's the full 6i with battery backup not the iR card.

I just wondered if any of you have this combination working or know of any tricks/issues? :confused:

Thanks in advance.

Origin · 4 Jun 2010 at 08:49

Which part code server do you have, as some of them came with a Raid 5 hardware controller as standard and you may be causing an issue between the HP and Dell controller cards.

unclepablo · 4 Jun 2010 at 09:25

Oh right. No, this just has the inbuild crappy Nvidea one.

#Chri5# · 4 Jun 2010 at 13:26

Latest BIOS for the ML115?

unclepablo · 5 Jun 2010 at 13:37

Yes, it is. Good thinking though.

Anyone else. It's an opteron 1354 chip. Read somewhere that PCI-E slot needs to run at x4 but I can't see an option in the bios to slow it down?

unclepablo · 5 Jun 2010 at 17:12

Going back to the KISS principle, I've solved it.

Basically, even though the onboard nvidia RAID controller was set to disabled, I had to also disable the SATA ports (not sure why these are different options, assume there are two controllers on the board).

Once I did that, could get straight into the controller BIOS.

Thanks for all the suggestions.