Smart Array P410 Boot Loop

[rmg_lazy_bone]

Hello everybody,

i am building a NAS and wanted to implement a 3x3TB RAID 5.

After i learned that P400 Controller cannot manage >2TB (only showed 2TB / drive), i have ordered a P410/256 Controller.

The system did boot, but the controller showed there were no manageable hard drives.

So i did an online firmware upgrade (v 6.64), since the capability of managing more than 2 TB per drive were later implemented.

After the update, the display showed his good old "initalizing ... ***" but then rebooted and kept rebooting.

Whithout the controller, the system boots just fine. I have tried a lot of bios-changes, but nothing worked.

I am using a Windows Server 2012 R2 with this Hardware:

Asus P8P67 Rev 3 Mainboard

Intel Celeron G1620 Dualcore 2,7GHz Ivy Bridge CPU

1x 4GB Crucial DDR3-1600 RAM

1x 60GB Intel SSD330 Series OS-SSD

3x 3TB Intenso HDD

350 Watt Corsair VS PSU

Radeon Hd5000 Series PCIe GPU for low level configuration (rdp needs a booted OS and the board does not support intel iGPU)

Every component of the system uses most recent bios/firmware version.

There are many similar problem posts in different forums over the internet, but i only found 1 solution which was specific for a supermicro board/bios.

I found no way to downgrade the firmware since the reboot-loop is the first thing to appear after switching the system on. I cant even access EFI when the controller is inserted.

I tried to put it in another slot.

Does anybody knows a way to change the firmware-version or even solve the boot loop with the most recent firmware-version?

Thank you for your help.

Regards

Tim

P.S: Sorry for all mistakes, i am no native english speaker.

[Photoray002]

Hello lazy bone,

Have you been to the HP Enterprise Business Community?

Thats a separate forum where experts for this type of product are found.

Although I dont know if its better to go to the NAS section of the forum or the Proliant Smart Array area.

Here are links for both.

Network Attached Storage (NAS) (Enterprise)

ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Good luck.  🙂

[rmg_lazy_bone]

Hi,

thank you for your advise. I have reposted this at the NAS (Enterprise) forum. If someone might have the same problem or can help, please visit:

 http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Network-Attached-Storage-NAS/P410-Boot-Loop/td-p/6756842#.VYZwafntmko

Regards

Tim