Hi, we just purchased a few DL380 G10 SFF 24 servers. It has the following controllers:
- E208i-a SR on the system board (RAID 1 for OS in the rear cage)
- E208i-p SR - Slot 1 driving front cage 1 (mixed mode JBOD)
- E208i-p SR - Slot 3 driving front cage 2 (mixed mode JBOD)
- E208i-p SR - Slot 4 driving front cage 3 (mixed mode JBOD)
All disks except the RAID 1 will be JBOD hence the mixed mode. The issue is; when we boot the system to RHEL (or to install RHEL), the devices (/dev/sdX) are all out of order. The rear cage OS drives show up as /dev/sdr instead of /dev/sda. Is there a way to for the BIOS to present these in some sort of logical order?
Initially I disabled all controllers except for the system board controller, so RHEL would install on the correct device, but when I enabled them again, it reverted back. This never seemed to be an issue with the G9's. Any suggestions or advice?
Thank you kindly.