I am a little new to raid that isn't done from a motherboard chip set and a little confused about the card I have. I won an auction on ebay for a Dell raid card. the auction said Dell perc 6/iR, I have the card here, and when I put it in my machine and it boots the Bios displays Dell sas 6 host bus adapter, is that different then a perc card?
I have 8 sata hard drives, 5 2tb and 3 1tb. I want to set up two arrays from this card both in raid 5. One array will be all the 1tb disks and one will be all the 2tb disks. When i go into the cards bios I only have the options I have are for either raid 1 or raid 0, and there is no option for raid 5. I am not sure what I am missing but isn't this card supposed to support raid 5?
I don't know too much about it, but should I be flashing this dell Bios to an lsi one? is there some way to get raid 5 working without a flash?
For reference the Bios listed is MPT Bios- 6.22.03.00 (2008.08.06) and I am running windows home server 2011, which is based off of server 2008. I can run raid 5 from inside windows from the computer management console, but I believe that is software raid, and therefore not what I am looking for.
Any help would be appreciated.
I have 8 sata hard drives, 5 2tb and 3 1tb. I want to set up two arrays from this card both in raid 5. One array will be all the 1tb disks and one will be all the 2tb disks. When i go into the cards bios I only have the options I have are for either raid 1 or raid 0, and there is no option for raid 5. I am not sure what I am missing but isn't this card supposed to support raid 5?
I don't know too much about it, but should I be flashing this dell Bios to an lsi one? is there some way to get raid 5 working without a flash?
For reference the Bios listed is MPT Bios- 6.22.03.00 (2008.08.06) and I am running windows home server 2011, which is based off of server 2008. I can run raid 5 from inside windows from the computer management console, but I believe that is software raid, and therefore not what I am looking for.
Any help would be appreciated.