Using Arch Linux to fix HP storage array issues

Hp ProLiant DL380p Gen8 newer logical drives error [fix]

Background Several months ago one of the Computer Recycling Project at The Working Centre’s donors donated some 2U HP server hardware. One of those machines was a nice HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server. The server came complete with 128GB of RAM, and it had 6 x 146GB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives. While it’s always nice to get any storage and RAM with donations, I needed a bit more storage for what I had in mind. Luckily we had an HP storage array at the back with a bunch of 300GB SAS drives I could just pull out of the array, and plug into the ProLiant DL380p Gen 8, or so I thought… ...

July 24, 2026 · 3 min