Dell PERC13 and PERC12 User’s Guide PERC H975 Series and PERC H965 Series cards

Drive recovery for NVMe initialization failure

If an NVMe drive fails to initialize, the drive that is connected to PERC can be recovered in HII. The NVMe initialization errors in the drives are listed as recoverable and nonrecoverable errors in HII.

The recoverable drives are identified as the following in the HII: Unusable (Recoverable), Error: <error string>. The nonrecoverable drives are listed as Usable in HII. Metadata and End-to-end Data Protected (EEDP) formatted disks cannot be recovered when connected to PERC12 series and later cards.