We have ProLiant DL380p Gen8 with Smart Array P420i controller. 4 x SAS 300 GB discs in Box 2. I'm booting the server and press F5 when it shows the info about Smart Array controller.
BTW, at first while pressing F5 on that screen it was giving me NMI errors on the red screen. Then i have created RAID0 via ORCA and installed the OS. Now it doesn't give me that error and launches the ACU normally. What was that and should i be worried about the hardware fault?
Anyway, it now launches the offline ACU and i press on unassigned drives and press Create Array, select all 4 drives. Then i press Create logical drive and it shows only RAID 0 and RAID 1+0. Though on youtube videos and in docs i see that i should have RAID 5 option also. Though in these videos people usually already have some other raid setup and only create raid 5 as a second array. Maybe that's the problem? I only has 4 discs and i want to have only RAID 5 and i will install OS and have my data on this single array. Is this possible? Should i upgrade controller's firmware?
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