- 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
Supported operating systems
The S140 controller supports the following operating systems:
NOTE:For information about the operating systems supported by specific servers, see the Server Operating Systems section on the support site.
- Microsoft
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 and above
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 12 SP2 and above
NOTE:The S140 supports Linux only for prebooting the configuration utility capability for enabling the Linux MDRAID. For more information, see Linux RAID.NOTE:Kickstart installs are supported only on RHEL 8.2 and later versions.
NOTE:For a list of supported operating systems and for driver installation instructions, see the server model specific Installation and Service Manual (ISM). For specific operating system service pack requirements, see the support page.
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