I have a DL 120 Gen9 that has a B140i dynamic smart array. The HPE disks are inserted into drive slots one and two. The disk activity light on the drive carriers are solid amber and the Smart Storage Administrator says "there are no configurable physical drives attached to the current array controller".
I'd prefer to not use the DSA because Ubuntu is certified to run on it without the DSA enabled. I'm going to allow mdadm to manage the software mirror volumes.
In the Ubuntu server installation, the installer doesn't see any disks.
The first hurdle is, why are the disk activity lights solid amber? The second would be, how do I get Ubuntu Server installer to see the disks so I can partition and configure them as mdadm managed disks?