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Perc 6E cannot see drives
Help!
I just received a T310 poweredge Service # that was supposedly running with two 3Tbyte SATA drives and windows 2016.
The drives were given to me but windows was removed.
I'm trying to install Windows 2008 R2 from a Dell CD from my old PowerEdge 2900 that died. I'd like it to have Drive C: as a previously formatted 500 GB SATA as stand alone drive and the two 3TB SATA drives as RAID 0.
First I tried going into setup with F2 and setting the SATA Setting to OFF and all the ports are set to OFF. Then I pressed Ctrl-R to enter the Perc setup. The screen said I was using Perc 6/E.
None of the drives were listed. I went into VD Management and cleared the Config. Still no physical disks were displayed.
So, I went back to F2 Setup (BIOS ver 1.2.1). Set SATA Settings to RAID, all ports still set to OFF. Pressed Ctrl-R and now the screen says I'm using Perc S100 build 1.0.1-0021. The pages are very different from the Perc 6E but my drives are displayed. Yay!
I delete the Virtual Disks,
I Initialize the 500GB drive and my only option was type Volume. That seemed to work and the drive is displayed in the Virtual Disk pane as Normal R/W and in the Physical Disk pane as Online.
I repeat the initialization with the two 3TB drives as RAID 0, 2.1TB, Normal R/W. And displays in the
I was able to set the 500GB drive to Raid 0 and the two 3TB drives as RAID 1. I'm warned that there is a 2TB limit which is okay so I proceed. The drives are the drives are displayed in the Virtual Disks pane as Online.
I start Windows Install. I go through choosing which Windows 2008 R2 I want to install, accept the license agreement, then Windows says there are no drives.
I choose the option to search for drivers and I download from the Dell website: DRVPK_APP_WIN_R234266.EXE
But, when I point to it, the driver file in it is not compatible.
Any suggestions? I've spent about 7 hours on this today and don't know what else to try.
Thanks for any help,
Steve
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DELL-Chris H
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Posted June 1st, 2020 11:00
Koolau,
It looks like the wrong driver file, I would give this one a go.
Let me know how it goes.
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