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August 8th, 2021 17:00
T5600 wont discover sas drives for raid
I have 8 working sas drives that are working perfectly whenever I boot my PC but when I am in my bios trying to raid them together, it does not detect them. The drives are connected through a Dell H310 card with LSI 9211-8i IT mode. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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@SerkaHD
Drives must be individually initialized from the RAID BIOS UTILITY then a Raid container made from the same Utility. All of this is done from the BIOS Raid menu WELL BEFORE ANY OS is installed. The OS will see the Raid array as a SINGLE DRIVE. AT least one of the drives must be pairity and another should be hot swap so this further shrinks the size.
Once the OS is about to be installed you need the F6 mass storage driver before the OS will "see" the single drive container. This is true for server 2016 2019 os or win7/8/10.
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000148150
RAID SETUP BIOS this is NOT F2 BIOS Its CTRL R or CTRL I or whatever the Perc Bios says at startup.
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000133184/