Hello all,

I joined this community in hopes someone can help with an issue I have.

I have a used PowerEdge T410 with the perc 6/i controller installed. For my purposes I will not be using a RAID configuration in this server. 

I attempted to disable the controller in the bios and the option is not there.

I received the machine without any drives and I am attempting to use a drive of my own I know has a valid copy of Windows. I can see the size of each drive installed from within the bios so I know they are being read by the controller and motherboard.

Is there a way for me to bypass, or turn off the controller.

The only other option I see is to pull the backplane and RAID controller and connect using SATA. If so then I loose the 6 bays worth of storage space unless I get a PCI SATA adapter, but I don’t know how I’d power them all since I think the power supply only has 2 SATA power connectors.

Thanks for reading. ANY help would be Much appreciated. Thank you.