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We had 4 hours response from HP with a new controller so we thought fine. But the new controller would mark the drives as detailed in the question, SmartStart 7.10 confirmed the info from the ROM.
Hence we moved the drives to another server to isolate the problem from the affected server.
Idea was that if the drives spin up OK and array is found, given that we replaced the controller than the error must be withe the server (MB/backplane)
The other server we tested the drives on had the same confid (DL380) but a 642 controller instead and was running a live server... We removed the drives and placed the 04 server drives and we had the same result so the problem moved.
Ergo we concluded if the drives do not show the arrays on the other controller than the info on the drives about the config must have gotten corrupted.
When we placed the original drives back in the test server these started up OK.
We then put the damaged drives back into the 04 server but swapped channels on the controller only to get the same result.
All this points to the drives.
Ideas?