Perc Limitations??

Question

I have a PE2300 (gpfzf) with a PERC2/SC and a 1x6 backplane and a PE1300 (hbaqr) with 4 9.1GB Atlas HD's

the PERC in the 2300 has firmware of ED4D and Bios of 1.25

the PERC in the 1300 has firmware of 3.13 and bios of 1.43

I am going to be formatting the 1300 and would like to make 1 RAID 5 partition of 27GB.

My question is when I had redone my 2300 I remember having a problem with the PERC recoginizing a boot partition larger then like 12Gig and it was a published limitation, does the PERC in the 1300 have the same limitation???

The ESM's have been updated and the Bios on both motherboards are the most current.

Thanks for your help

sukuvi · Answer

According to other postings, if you could update the PERC Firmware to the current version, you could move the limitation to a higher size or even remove it completely.

DELL-Mark A · Answer

Hi LeRoy

Both of these systems came with the Perc 2/sc (Single Channel) which does not have the boot container size limitation that the older Perc II (2 channel) does.

You should have no problems with the PowerEdge 1300.

leroy-weaver · Answer

Thanks AGAIN!!!!!

cj8281 · Answer

I recently installed a perc 2/sc in my PE 2300. I have 5 18gb drives installed. I set up one logical drive in raid 5 and used all the available space. Initiallized and then used fdisk to create a the drive. All that showed was 8gb. I thought maybe the drive was bigger than fdisk could handle so I used the updated fdisk for drives larger than 60gb. I still could only get 8gb. After reading that it could only have a boot drive of only 8gb I reconfigured the arrangement with 3 logical drives, the first with 8gb and the other 2 with 32gb each. Initiallized the drives then used fdisk to create the dos partitions. I ended up with 3 8gb drives, with the first one being the active boot drive. If all i can make with this controller is 8gb logical drives I will remove it and just use the 18gb drives on the scsi controller without the hassle of raid. All that I want to do is set up a file server for my house. Do I need a different controller card to raid all the drives into one (raid 5)?? I recently aquired a perc II dp/n 4351P. Will this work or is this older than the perc 2/sc?? Also the J3 jumper for the batteries was left on when it was pulled from the system. Does this mean the batteries will have to be replaced?? Thank you for your time

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Perc Limitations??

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