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June 28th, 2011 11:00
PowerEdge R510 with PERC H700 can't use 3TB SAS
I purchased a PowerEdge R510 preinstalled with 3TB SAS drives this week. The default PERC card was an H700.
Primary Objective: I wish to take full advantage of the 3TB RAID limit in a RAID 5 capacity.
Issue 1: The Dell RAID utility on the “Systems Management Tools and Documentation” DVD will not recognize a 3TB partition. Instead it breaks it up into multiple virtual RAID's.
Sub Issue: Converting to UEFI (Which recognizes partition above 2.2TB), will not allow me to use the “Systems Management Tools and Documentation” DVD.
Ideas? I'm going to toss on Windows 2008 R2 x64 when I get a chance. The Dell "System Management Tools and Documentation" DVD that came with this weeks systems is version 6.5.0 Rev. A00.
Is Dell coming out with an update to address this issue?
theflash1932
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June 28th, 2011 12:00
Have you tried creating the RAID in the CTRL-R utility of the PERC, then skipping RAID setup in SMTD? I suspect it will still not work and isprobably a limitation of the OpenManage utility. You also would not have this problem if you set up RAID and install 2008R2 directly from the OS DVD. Even doing it this way, you must either:
1. Because of Windows limitations, create RAID "slices" (Virtual Disks smaller than the whole) smaller than 2TB, or
2. Install 2008R2 with UEFI enabled so you can convert the disk to GPT.
jwulf
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June 28th, 2011 18:00
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jwulf
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June 28th, 2011 18:00
This wasn't as simply as using the SMTD.
Cleared SMTD settings and manually Configured RAID through the H700 card
Enabled UEFI
Ran the Installation of Windows 2008 R2 SP1 x64
Loaded H700 Driver
Created New Partition
Extended Partition, Created New Partition
Formated Partition
Attempted to install to the 2.7TB partition
Received Error "Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error 0x80300001
Placed the Windows installation DVD back in the drive
Clicked Refresh
Same error occured
Clicked Next <--Just to see what would happen
Windows Installed and worked fine
theflash1932
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June 28th, 2011 19:00
That's the same message you get when installing to a VHD ... it doesn't like the looks of it, but it will do it anyway. Good to know.
IgorAndev
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August 28th, 2014 05:00
Hello,
Im currently experiencing the same issue can you please provide me the Part/Serial numbers of the 3TB physical drives you inserted in your server ?
So i can purchase same which are proven as working?
Thank you in advance.