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August 14th, 2017 16:00
Dell Precision t3400 setup issue
got a used dell precision t3400 and trying to boot it up on single sata drive
the options in bios sata operations is raid auto detect/achi
raid autodetect/ata and raid on
it says onboard sata drive is not present
but shows the 3 160gig sata drives
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August 15th, 2017 05:00
A raid card installed in X4 slot is NOT onboard. Typically these drives are SAS not SATA so you cant attach them to onboard. You also cannot attach SATA drives to SAS controllers and have them work.
The BLUE connector on the mother board is SATA 0 the black Connector next to it is SATA 1. The other 4 connectors are for Raid configuration.
Start with one drive attached to sata 0 and 1 dvd attached to SATA 1 with NO RAID Card installed. Raid Autodetect AHCI and advanced format drives REQUIRE F6 AHCI drivers.
http://downloads.dell.com/published/pages/precision-t3400.html
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15251/
STOR_all64_f6flpy_9.6.0.1014_PV.zip must be unzipped to a floppy disk or USB flash drive and pointed to during install. AHCI is required for booting SATA DVD Drives. All hard drives after 2011 and larger than 120 Gigs are ADVANCED FORMAT 4k sector 512e drives.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) version 9.6 and newer supports 4k sector disks if the device supports 512 byte emulation (512e). The product name was changed from Intel® Matrix Storage Manager to Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) beginning with version 9.5.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) supports the following Intel® Chipsets.
Desktop chipsets:
The chipset must use one of the following Intel® controller hubs: