- 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
- The vendor's name is not displayed in Physical Disk Properties when using Micron RI and MU drives
- 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
- Documentation resources
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller S140 User’s Guide
NVMe PCIe SSD support
S140 supports the NVMe PCIe SSD-including the NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) and NVMe PCIe SSD Adapter.
The S140 allows the NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5 inch SFF and the NVMe PCIe SSD adapter in a RAID configuration. The NVMe PCIe SSDs supports volume, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10. S140 also supports Prepare to remove feature to remove Non-RAID NVMe volume from the Dell open manage console.
The recommended minimum version to support the NVMe drives is listed in the following table:
| Drives | S140 operating system driver | S140 UEFI driver |
|---|---|---|
| Samsung PM1733/PM1735 | 5.5.2.0008 | 5.5.2.0006 |
| Intel P5500/P5600 | 5.5.2.0008 | 5.5.2.0006 |
| Kioxia CM6/CD6 | 5.5.4.0000 | 5.5.2.0006 |
| Intel P5800x | 5.6.0.0005 | 5.6.0.0002 |
| Hynix PE8010 | 5.6.0.0005 | 5.6.0.0002 |
| SAMSUNG PM9A3 | 5.7.1.0000 | 5.6.0.0002 |
| Samsung PM 1733a/ PM1735a | 5.7.0.0007 | 5.7.1.0004 |
| Intel 5520/5620 | 5.7.0.0007 | 5.7.1.0004 |
| Kioxia CD7 | 5.7.0.0007 | 5.7.1.0004 |
NOTE:Hot removal or hot insertion of the NVMe PCIe SSDs in UEFI or preboot mode is not supported. In the operating system environment, hot-swapping two or more NVMe PCIe SSDs simultaneously is not supported.
NOTE:Mixing of SATA drives and NVMe PCIe SSDs in a virtual disk is not supported.
NOTE:Ensure that you use only the S140 UEFI configuration utility to configure the NVMe PCIe SSDs during preboot.
NOTE:In UEFI HII mode, you can use the NVMe PCIe SSD option on the Device Settings page to view NVMe physical disk properties and perform blink/unblink operations.
NOTE:RAID configuration and boot from NVMe virtual disk is supported only in UEFI boot mode.
NOTE:RAID configuration using Option ROM (OPROM) is not supported on systems with the NVMe PCIe SSD.
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