- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview
- Physical Disks
- Virtual Disks
- Cabling the drives for S140
- BIOS Configuration Utility
- Entering the BIOS configuration utility
- Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility
- Initializing the physical disks
- Creating the virtual disks
- Deleting the virtual disks
- Swapping two virtual disks
- Managing the hot spare disks
- Viewing the physical disks details
- Viewing the virtual disks details
- Rescan disks
- Controller Options
- Continue to boot
- UEFI RAID configuration utility
- Installing the drivers
- Troubleshooting your system
- Precautions for hot removal or hot insertion of NVMe drives
- Unable to configure Linux RAID using UEFI Configuration Utility
- Performance degradation after disabling SATA physical disk write cache policy
- Unable to modify any feature settings in UEFI or OPROM
- Extra reboot during OS installation
- After enabling Hypervisor, system displays Blue Screen of Death
- After enabling node interleaving in BIOS, system displays Blue Screen of Death
- OS installation failing on NVMe PCIe SSD with third-party driver
- System startup issues
- System does not boot
- Controller mode is set incorrectly at system setup
- Boot mode, boot sequence, and or boot sequence retry are set incorrectly
- Bootable virtual disk is in a failed state
- The boot order is incorrect for a bootable virtual disk
- A Non-RAID virtual disk is no longer in first position in the BIOS configuration utility list after a system reboot
- The BIOS configuration utility option does not display
- Configuring RAID using the ROM Utility option is disabled
- Warning Messages
- Other errors appearing on the BIOS screen
- BSOD is observed while booting on the NVMe configuration server
- Failure of dump file creation
- S140 does not display greater than ten virtual disks in the BIOS Configuration Utility or CTRL R
- Unable to delete virtual disks when there are more than 30 virtual disks present in the system
- Virtual disk rebuild status in the BIOS Configuration Utility (<CTRL><R>) or in UEFI HII
- Physical disk - related errors
- The physical disk fails
- Cannot initialize a physical disk
- Behavior of a faulty drive is undefined
- Status LED is not working
- Blinking and unblinking feature not working on PowerEdge R740
- Cannot update NVMe PCIe SSD firmware by using Dell Update Package or DUP
- Third-party driver installation for NVMe PCIe SSD failing
- Unable to find the NVMe PCIe SSD for operating system installation
- Virtual disks - related errors
- Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for Linux
- Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or iDRAC
- Virtual disk size in decimals is not supported while creating a VD
- Cannot create a virtual disk
- A virtual disk is in a degraded state
- Cannot assign a dedicated hot spare to a virtual disk
- Cannot create a global hot spare
- A dedicated hot spare fails
- Failed or degraded virtual disk
- Cannot create a virtual disk on selected physical disks
- RAID disk created from the NVMe PCIe SSDs not appearing in operating system environment, showing as partitioned disks
- Cannot perform an online capacity expansion or reconfigure on a virtual disk
- Unable to configure RAID on NVMe PCIe SSD using a third party RAID configuration utility
- S140 config driver is not installed after S140 DUP is run
- Getting help
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller S140 User’s Guide
PERC S140 specifications
The following table provides PERC S140 specifications for SATA and NVMe PCIe SSDs:
NOTE:Specifications vary depending on the system model.
CAUTION:Not adhering to specifications regarding maximum and minimum virtual disks or physical disks will lead to undefined behavior.
| Specification | PERC S140 |
|---|---|
| SATA SSD technology | Yes |
| NVMe support | Yes |
| SAS connectors | No |
| Dell-compliant SAS compatibility | No |
| Direct-connected end devices | Dell-compliant HDDs and SSDs |
| SMART error support through management applications | Yes |
| Backplane supported systems | Yes |
| Support for internal tape drive | No |
| Support for global hot spare | Yes |
| Support for 512 native and 512e drives | Yes |
| Support for 4Kn native drives | No |
| Maximum number of global hot spares | Varies with the number of free disks in the system. |
| Maximum number of physical disk supported (SATA + NVMe) | 30 |
| Minimum RAM size required | 16 GB |
| Specification | PERC S140 |
|---|---|
| Dell-compliant SATA compatibility | Yes |
| Communication with the end devices | SATA links |
| SATA connectors | Discrete on the system board |
| I/O controller | Intel C621 (C620 series chipset) (onboard SATA) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) |
| Communication with the system | Integrated |
| Software-based RAID for SATA drives | Windows RAID: Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10 |
| Linux RAID: RAID 1 | |
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NOTE:Non-boot virtual disks of any supported RAID level by the Linux OS installed on RAID-1 disk can also be created using native Linux RAID utilities.
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| Pass through SSD support | Yes |
| Specification | PERC S140 |
|---|---|
| On systems running Windows, if there is no NSID=1 present on the NVMe drive, the drive is not accessible and is marked offline. Firmware upgrades run on the NVMe drive are successful, however. | |
| Maximum number of namespace(s) supported | 1 |
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NOTE:If the drive having more than one namespace(s) is connected, the drive is marked offline and is inaccessible.
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| NVMe connectors | PCIe/slimline |
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NOTE:Only Dell-compliant NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5 inch Small Form Factor (SFF), or NVMe PCIe SSD Adapters are supported.
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| Dell-compliant NVMe compatibility | Yes |
| Communication with end devices | PCIe |
| Software-based RAID for NVMe PCIe SSDs | Windows RAID: Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10 |
| Linux RAID: RAID 1 | |
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NOTE:Non-boot virtual disks of any supported RAID level by the Linux OS installed on RAID-1 disk can also be created using native Linux RAID utilities.
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| Pass through NVMe PCIe SSD support | Yes |
The following table provides PERC S140 virtual disk specifications:
| Specification | PERC S140 |
|---|---|
| Maximum number of physical disks supported | 12 |
| Maximum number of virtual disks supported | 30 |
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NOTE:Maximum number of virtual disks may exceed 30 when:
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| Maximum number of virtual disks supported from a single disk group | 8 |
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NOTE:Maximum number of virtual disks can exceed more than 8 from a single disk group as there is no constraint from PERC S140.
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| Minimum virtual disk (VD) size | 10 GB |
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NOTE: PERC S140 does not restrict the creation of VDs of size less than 10 GB.
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| Maximum number of physical disks per virtual disk | 8 |
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NOTE: PERC S140 does not restrict the creation of VDs using more than 8 physical disks.
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| Maximum number of virtual disks per physical disk | 8 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a volume | 1 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 | 8 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 | 2 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 | 8 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 | 8 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a volume | 1 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 | 2 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 | 2 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 | 3 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 | 4 |
NOTE: The configurations listed in the table above may vary with the hard-drive backplane of your system.
| Specification | PERC S140 |
|---|---|
| Maximum number of physical disks supported | 30 |
| Maximum number of virtual disks supported | 30 |
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NOTE:Maximum number of virtual disks may exceed 30 when:
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| Maximum number of virtual disks supported from a single disk group | 8 |
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NOTE:Maximum number of virtual disks can exceed more than 8 from a single disk group as there is no constraint from PERC S140.
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| Minimum virtual disk (VD) size | 10 GB |
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NOTE:PERC S140 does not restrict the creation of VDs of size less than 10 GB.
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| Maximum number of physical disks per virtual disk | 8 |
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NOTE: PERC S140 does not restrict the creation of VDs using more than 8 physical disks.
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| Maximum number of virtual disks per physical disk | 8 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a volume | 1 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 | 8 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 | 2 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 | 8 |
| Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 | 8 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a volume | 1 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 | 2 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 | 2 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 | 3 |
| Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 | 4 |
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