Deleting the virtual disks................................................................................................................................................. 22
Swapping two virtual disks............................................................................................................................................. 23
Managing the hot spare disks.........................................................................................................................................23
Assigning the global hot spare disks........................................................................................................................ 23
Assigning the dedicated hot spare disks................................................................................................................. 24
Unassign hot spare disks...........................................................................................................................................24
Viewing the physical disks details.................................................................................................................................. 24
Viewing the virtual disks details..................................................................................................................................... 25
Rescan disks.....................................................................................................................................................................25
Controller Options............................................................................................................................................................25
Continue to boot.............................................................................................................................................................. 26
6 UEFI RAID conguration utility.................................................................................................................... 27
Entering the DELL PERC S140 Conguration Utility...................................................................................................27
Exiting the DELL PERC S140 Conguration Utility......................................................................................................28
Controller management...................................................................................................................................................28
Viewing the controller properties............................................................................................................................. 28
Changing the boot order of the virtual disks..........................................................................................................29
Stopping the system from booting if there is a critical BIOS error......................................................................30
Converting a physical disk to a Non-RAID disk......................................................................................................30
Converting physical disk to RAID capable disk.......................................................................................................30
Rescan disks...............................................................................................................................................................30
Virtual disk management..................................................................................................................................................31
Conguring Windows RAID....................................................................................................................................... 31
Conguring Linux RAID..............................................................................................................................................31
Manage virtual disk properties................................................................................................................................. 33
Viewing virtual disks properties and policies...........................................................................................................34
Deleting a virtual disk.................................................................................................................................................35
Physical disk management..............................................................................................................................................35
Viewing physical disk properties...............................................................................................................................36
Managing the physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives...........................................................................37
Assigning the global hot spare..................................................................................................................................38
Unassign a global hot spare...................................................................................................................................... 38
Assigning the dedicated hot spare...........................................................................................................................38
Cryptographic erase.................................................................................................................................................. 39
Viewing global hot spares......................................................................................................................................... 39
7 Installing the drivers.....................................................................................................................................40
Pre-installation requirements..........................................................................................................................................40
Setting the SATA controller to RAID mode ............................................................................................................40
Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode ....................................................................................................... 40
Creating a virtual disk.................................................................................................................................................41
Checking PERC S140 options and the boot list priority.........................................................................................41
Creating the device driver media for Windows driver installation..............................................................................42
Downloading drivers for PERC S140 from the Dell support website for all operating systems....................... 42
Downloading drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools media for Windows......................42
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