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DELL-John C
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Posted January 24th, 2012 03:00
Hi there,
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the Optiplex 390 comes with the Intel H61 Express chipset which has no RAID capabilities - this is why you cannot select any RAID options in the BIOS.
I hope this answers your question but if you have any other queries, please don't hesitate to get back in touch.
theflash1932
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Posted January 24th, 2012 07:00
Well there ya have it :) Although the Dell Optiplex 390 documentation references the CTRL-I, it is probably a generic reference for all systems. I almost checked earlier, but I could have sworn I'd seen it as an option to configure - must have been a different machine:

theflash1932
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Posted January 23rd, 2012 10:00
I couldn't find anything definitive, as far as documentation goes, but only the "mini-tower" version has bays for two drives, so the option may not be available in the BIOS (probably under drives/SATA operation) on other chassis versions (desktop, small form factors). Also, you must have two like hard drives in order for the CTRL-I option to appear during POST ... CTRL-I is where you configure and manage the RAID.