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R710 with MD1200 | no physical drives detected
Hi All - I've got a Dell R710 with a new H800 installed, connected to a MD1200. I'm trying to configure the md1200 via the H800 bios config utility but there are no drives present in the PD Mgmt tab. I've got 12 (12TB) sata hard drives.
I have updated the firmware to the H800 and MD1200 to the latest versions.
Other info that might be useful:
- None of the hard drive lights light up
- md1200 is in unified mode
- the md1200 has a solid blue status light
- I've also connected to the system via open manage and it also doesn't show any disks.
Angel.D
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May 3rd, 2020 13:00
Turns out that that my sata hdds were mounted to far back in the caddy. Apparently I should've been using the SAS holes and not the SATA holes in the caddy.
DELL-Sam L
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April 23rd, 2020 15:00
Hello Angel.D,
Did you power on your MD1200 first and wait 5 minutes before powering on your host? Are the drives that you are using Dell drives or 3rd party drives? If the drives are Dell drives what is the Dell part#’s on the drives?
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Willo_in_melb
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May 28th, 2020 04:00
Was the H800 happy with your large SATA drives? Did you set up raid or pass the discs through to your server directly? I'm exploring running FreeNAS with this setup.