Take the 2-minute tour ×  I've just recieved a second hand
PowerEdge 2950 with a PERC 6/i raid controller and the sata
disks that used to be in the machine. However when I power up
the machine the controler will not see the physical disks at
all. (ie, in the configutil, no PD's are shown.)  They are
definetly connected as the drive's green power lights flash
briefly at startup.  These drives used to be connected to this
or a simular machine, and I read somewhere that this could be
because they have some configuration already written. (This of
course could be massive red herring, as the drives don't seem to
have power or are being accessed.)  Another consideration is
that only one of the power supplies is plugged in, though I'd
have thought that wouldn't make a difference.  I've tried
setting the SATA options in the bios from OFF (as it was when it
arrived) to AUTO, but I suspect that this setting doesn't apply
to the PERC 6/i drives.  Any suggestions?  share|improve this
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