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Dell PE R630 onboard Sata Controller
Hi all, I’ve got a Dell R630 with a single SATA Controller. I just want to get into the SATA controller to initialize the SATAVdrive/create a volume. How do I do this? When booting I see the CD-rom and SATA drive recognised but there is no CTRL-S option. Also in the BIOS and Lifecycle controller there are no options to configure the drive. I can change the controller to AHCI/ATA/RAID etc. but that’s all. In devices I can see the network cards but not the SATA controller.
DaveH7
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May 24th, 2019 15:00
Ah the CTRL-S option only appears when SATA controller is in RAID mode. But then the drive isn't available in ESXi at all.
So I changed is back to AHCI and noticed in VMware that the drive was found. I then just cleared the partition table using VMware and hte drive can now be used as a datastore.
theflash1932
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May 24th, 2019 06:00
CTRL-S for what?
What are you trying to do (wasn't super clear - just use a SATA drive as a standalone drive?)? Do you have a slot available on the backplane? Trying to install and OS? Add storage?
Set SATA to AHCI, NOT RAID.
DaveH7
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May 24th, 2019 06:00
Hi all, I’ve got a Dell R630 with a single SATA Controller. I just want to get into the SATA controller to initialize the SATAVdrive/create a volume. How do I do this? When booting I see the CD-rom and SATA drive recognised but there is no CTRL-S option. Also in the BIOS and Lifecycle controller there are no options to configure the drive. I can change the controller to AHCI/ATA/RAID etc. but that’s all. In devices I can see the network cards but not the SATA controller.
DaveH7
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May 24th, 2019 07:00
I’ve connected a single SATA drive into slot A in the front drive bays for OS. This server has no SAS storage array.
theflash1932
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May 24th, 2019 08:00
Still unclear. So you have only ONE drive installed, connected to the onboard SATA port, that you want to install Windows to?
Is there a reason you don't just attach the drive to the backplane?
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May 24th, 2019 14:00