Hi.
I have serious problem with Smart Array P222 Controller. I use Western Digital 1TB Velociraptor 10k drive WD1000CHTZ (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20#tab3). When I cold boot server it doesn't recognise P222 controller. It doesn't show up after POST and my server tries to boot from NIC. When I reboot the server using CRTL+ALT+DEL, the controller magically shows up and I can boot system from WD drive. I can reproduce this situation every time I cold boot server. Problem is that I HP is do nothing to fix this crap. They told me that the the WD drive is messing this thing. But I have tested this disk on 4 PC's and different controllers and I had no problems with booting, reading or writing this disk. So in my opinion problem is with the controller not disk. They released a new firmware (4.68) but it's not resolving this problem. I think, that this controller is not SATA3 compatible :(
Any ideas or suggestions?