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Hello all,
I joined this community in hopes someone can help with an issue I have.
I have a used PowerEdge T410 with the perc 6/i controller installed. For my purposes I will not be using a RAID configuration in this server.
I attempted to disable the controller in the bios and the option is not there.
I received the machine without any drives and I am attempting to use a drive of my own I know has a valid copy of Windows. I can see the size of each drive installed from within the bios so I know they are being read by the controller and motherboard.
Is there a way for me to bypass, or turn off the controller.
The only other option I see is to pull the backplane and RAID controller and connect using SATA. If so then I loose the 6 bays worth of storage space unless I get a PCI SATA adapter, but I don’t know how I’d power them all since I think the power supply only has 2 SATA power connectors.
Thanks for reading. ANY help would be Much appreciated. Thank you.
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Posted October 7th, 2020 07:00
Hello,
yes you can, of course after having performed a full backup of the drive
Here you can see how to create Virtual disk (page 85).
Of course you need to do it without initialize the virtual disk.
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Marco
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I understand doing things according to protocol.
I did not know I can use RAID0 without formatting the drive. Will I be able to add additional drives in RAID0 configuration and have them run independently from each other?
This would solve my issue for sure!
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Posted October 8th, 2020 00:00
Hello,
glad that it solved your issue,
thanks
Marco
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with kind regards Martin/ Liebe Grüße Martin
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Posted October 7th, 2020 05:00
Hello,
why don't you use PERC 6/i with only your hard drive in RAID0?
You can create a RAID0 with only 1 drive without formatting it and it will be seen as non raid volume.
I cannot help you in connecting a Drive bypassing backplane as it is not supported by Dell.
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