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jonhwilliams
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May 20th, 2014 19:00
PERC H700 only recognizes three drives
I have a six drive bay controlled by a PERC H700
If I put 4 Dell 1TB drives in and 2 Seagate 2TB drives works fine
If I put 2 Seagate 2TB drives in and 4 WD Red 3TB drives only one of the 4 is recognized by the PERC H700 Adapter BIOS Configuration Utility
It does not matter which slot I put the drive in, that one drive is picked up immediately.
I have spent 6 hours looking at the drives using disk -l and smartctl and gparted and I cannot see any differences
I have formated (and cleared format) --the 1 drive works, 3 not
I have created (and deleted partition) --the 1 drive works, 3 not
Any suggestions much appreciated...
DELL-Josh Cr
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Posted May 21st, 2014 09:00
Hi,
So the same 3TB drive works in any of the slots and the other three 3TB drives don’t work in any slot? If that is the case it sounds like a problem with three of the drives. Are the drives in Dell carriers?
jonhwilliams
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Posted May 21st, 2014 09:00
Thank you Josh.
Doh!... RTM.
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