Users Guide

Managing the hot spare disks........................................................................................................................................ 24
Assigning the global hot spare disks....................................................................................................................... 24
Assigning the dedicated hot spare disks................................................................................................................24
Unassign hot spare disks........................................................................................................................................... 25
Viewing the physical disks details................................................................................................................................. 25
Viewing the virtual disks details.....................................................................................................................................25
Rescan disks....................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Controller Options.............................................................................................................................................................26
Continue to boot............................................................................................................................................................... 26
Chapter 6: UEFI RAID configuration utility.................................................................................. 27
Entering the DELL PERC S140 Configuration Utility................................................................................................ 27
Exiting the DELL PERC S140 Configuration 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.................................................................29
Converting a physical disk to a Non-RAID disk.................................................................................................... 29
Converting physical disk to RAID capable disk.....................................................................................................30
Rescan disks................................................................................................................................................................. 30
Virtual disk management................................................................................................................................................. 30
Configuring Windows RAID....................................................................................................................................... 30
Configuring Linux RAID............................................................................................................................................... 31
Manage virtual disk properties................................................................................................................................. 32
Viewing virtual disks properties and policies.........................................................................................................33
Deleting a virtual disk..................................................................................................................................................34
Physical disk management.............................................................................................................................................. 35
Viewing physical disk properties.............................................................................................................................. 35
Managing the physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives......................................................................36
Assigning the global hot spare..................................................................................................................................37
Unassign a global hot spare...................................................................................................................................... 37
Assigning the dedicated hot spare.......................................................................................................................... 37
Cryptographic erase....................................................................................................................................................37
Viewing global hot spares..........................................................................................................................................38
Chapter 7: Installing the drivers.................................................................................................. 39
Pre-installation requirements......................................................................................................................................... 39
Setting the SATA controller to RAID mode ......................................................................................................... 39
Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode ......................................................................................................39
Creating a virtual disk.................................................................................................................................................40
Checking PERC S140 options and the boot list priority.....................................................................................40
Creating the device driver media for Windows driver installation......................................................................... 41
Downloading drivers for PERC S140 from the Dell support website for all operating systems................41
Downloading drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools media for Windows.............. 41
Accessing ZP files........................................................................................................................................................ 41
Chapter 8: Troubleshooting your system..................................................................................... 43
Precautions for hot removal or hot insertion of NVMe drives...............................................................................43
Unable to configure Linux RAID using UEFI Configuration Utility......................................................................... 43
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