HP G8 raid software

all drives connected, boot the UAC and create a RAID 0 off of the SSD and RAID 1 from both 3.5″ drives
still in the UAC set the SSD RAID 0 as primary boot device
shutdown and unplug the storage drives
boot Ubuntu live CD (i used the iLO remote console) and follow the installation steps
when asked for the partition to use, select whole partition
continue until it asks for the GRUB location, by default it should install to sda, but in my case i had to specify sdb, which is the SSD, otherwise it would fail
after GRUB is installed reboot
in Ubuntu installation proceed to install the HPVSA driver, i’ll quote Royco on this part:Quotesudo add-apt-repository ppa:hp-iss-team/hp-storage sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hp-iss-team/hpvsa-update sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install hpvsaNext blacklist AHCI:sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add and save: blacklist = ahci sudo update-initramfs –u sudo reboot
the last reboot might not be required, though i guess it doesn’t harm either
shutdown and plug in the two storage drives
next boot to Ubuntu, where you hopefully find two drives, of which the latter one is the RAID 1 AND the fans spin at 6% in idle