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September 7th, 2020 23:00

Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card on PowerEdge T430 - Recognize only 1 drive

Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card on PowerEdge T430


I installed Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card includes 4 Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 500G SSD

PCI SLOT 4 : adapter 3  on PowerEdge T430

The windows server 2019 recognize only 1 drive (total 466GB)
Do I need to change something on the bios ?

I am using the latest firmware

Bios VER  2.11.0

 
iDRAC8 2.75.75.75 (Build 17)
Lifecycle Controller 2.75.75.75

 

Thanks 

Erez 

 

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September 8th, 2020 05:00

Specifications
 
Model Number:  80G5N
 
Brand:  Dell
 
Alt Part Number(s):  080G5N
 
I see that the server 2019 use 
"Standard NVM express Controller"   driver   (from year 2006) 
 
I see that the card need   PCIe bifurcation support 
 PowerEdge T430 Motherborad support  PCIe bifurcation ? 
I need to enable it from the bios ?
BIOS settings for enabling PCIe 3.0 x16 bifurcation (x4x4x4x4)
 

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September 8th, 2020 05:00

Hi,

 

Have you already check if the driver of this card is up to date into the OS?

Could you provide me the part number of this card to check his compatibility with your server?

 

Regards,

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September 9th, 2020 05:00

Hi,

 

yes you are into the good resolution path. Please upgrade the bios if necessary and activate this option.

Let me know when it's fixed.

 

Regards,

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September 9th, 2020 22:00

Hi,

As I mention I am using the  latest firmware + Bios VER 2.11.0

Did you check that the card Model Number: 80G5N compatibility with the  T430 server? 

Look like that Dell POWEREDGE T430 Server Motherboard System Board KX11M have only 1 PCI-E X16 Slot3 with an IDREC card

Don`t know about SLOT4 .

Anyway I don`t see any "enabling PCIe 3.0 x16 bifurcation (x4x4x4x4) " option at my bios settings

Any Idea?

 

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September 10th, 2020 01:00

Hi,

 

Unfortunately, the PN#80G5N is not listed compatible with T430. Though, you made it work on the server but the server does not support bifurcation. Only 14Gen server T440 would have the feature. 

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