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4 Contents
General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing the PERC S300 Adapter
. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Connect Physical Disks to the PERC S300 Adapter
. . . 35
Complete the Hardware Installation
. . . . . . . . . . 35
5 Installing the Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing the Microsoft Windows Drivers . . . . . . . 37
6 RAID Configuration and
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring the Controller: Using the PERC
Virtual Disk Management Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
System Startup Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Warning Messages: Dell Inc. PERC S100
Adapter or Dell Inc. PERC S300 Adapter
BIOS Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Virtual Disk-Related Errors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Physical Disk-Related Errors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8 Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Controller Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Controller Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Physical Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Virtual Disk Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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