Dell PowerEdge - Troubleshooting PERC S140 System Issues; Linux RAID Configuration Errors; NVMe PCIe SSD Configuration Issues

Troubleshooting your system
To get help with your Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) S140, you can contact your Dell Technical Service representative or see
dell.com/support.
Topics:
• Unable to congure Linux RAID using UEFI Conguration Utility
• Unable to congure Linux RAID on systems with more than 10 NVMe PCIe SSDs
• Performance degradation after disabling SATA physical disk write cache policy
• Performance degradation in UEFI Human Interface Infrastructure
• Unable to modify any feature settings in UEFI or OPROM
• Extra reboot during OS installation
• OS installation failing on NVMe PCIe SSD with third-party driver
• System startup issues
• The BIOS conguration utility option does not display
• Conguring RAID using the Option ROM Utility is disabled
• Warning Messages
• Other errors appearing on the BIOS screen
• Physical disk - related errors
• Virtual disks - Related errors
Unable to congure Linux RAID using UEFI
Conguration Utility
Likely Cause:
Option to select Linux RAID in Conguring Linux RAID page will be disabled if RAID is already congured.
Corrective Action: To resolve this issue:
1 If applicable, delete the virtual disk created in Windows RAID.
2 Convert physical disk to Non-RAID disk. See Converting physical disk to Non-RAID disk.
3 Convert physical disk to RAID. See Converting physical disk to RAID capable disk.
4 Congure Linux RAID. See Conguring Linux RAID
Unable to congure Linux RAID on systems with more
than 10 NVMe PCIe SSDs
Corrective Action:
Ensure that the number of physical disks in a Linux RAID does not exceed 10 NVMe PCIe SSDs.
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