N54L and Dell H200 perc card

[garethsnaim]

Hi everyone.

Possibly a long shot this. I am assuming there is no raid hardware on board with the N54L? I know this is aging hardware now but still the plan was to get the four drives set in raid 0. I have ad ell H200 card that fits fine. I put the SAS connector into this from the board and sure enough on boot it offers me to enter the PERC set up (Control C)

However the HP Bios sort of takes over and goes looking for a boot drive, and get sin a loop saying searching for boot, retry. The perc says it will load ofter initiliasation, but I cannot get this far because the HP insists on tryig to find a boot drive. I went into HP bios and took everything out of boot priority, turned of net boot etc, but no luck.

Appriciate these are different manufacturers but wanteed to check there is not something obvious I need to do?

Cheers

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The only suggestion I can offer is to make sure that you have set the drive controller in the BIOS to RAID.

It is probably set to AHCI by default.

If there is no drive controller setting in the BIOS to make that change, I would imagine you can't run a RAID setup on that PC.

[garethsnaim]

Thanks Paul

I remember moons ago trying to set this thing up as raid just off its own hoardware and got nowhere. On a dell that perc just shows up post, and you go into the configuration utility and set up you raid, its nothing to do with the Bios of the PC. Perhaps its different on HP?

I think I have another non dell card so will dig that out, though I fear the same outcome

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

All I own are HP business desktops (equivlent to the Dell Optiplex series) and mine all have 3 drive controller settings in the BIOS...IDE, AHCI and RAID.

[garethsnaim]

Looking about google it might be possible to use the original hardware for raid, I wonder now if infact I had the previous gen one n40 something or other.

I'll have a poke around in the bios