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I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 that I want to setup as a failover server. 
It has the Dell PERC 4e/Di BIOS stuff. 
So when I press CTRL-M to go into the RAID BIOS, I get a menu that starts off with 
 
Configure 
Initialize 
Objects 
 
If I go into Configure, then View, I can see that I have 6 drives, and all 6 are ONLIN. &nbsp;When I press F3 to see Logical Drives, I see 
 
LD 0 is RAID 5 with 104040 MB 
LD 1 is RAID 0 with 34680 MB 
 
When I boot the &nbsp;server, all the BIOS messages go rolling by, and this one tweaks my interest: 
 
2 Logical Drives Found 
0 Physical Drives Found 
2 Logical Drives Handles by BIOS 
0 Physical Drives Handled by BIOS 
 
Whatever I try to install (linux, Windows server), they all say the same thing &quot;No hard drive found&quot;. 
What am I doing wrong? &nbsp;Is there some sort of step-by-step I can follow to make this work? 
 
Thanks.
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 that I want to setup as a failover server.
It has the Dell PERC 4e/Di BIOS stuff.
So when I press CTRL-M to go into the RAID BIOS, I get a menu that starts off with 

Configure
Initialize
Objects

If I go into Configure, then View, I can see that I have 6 drives, and all 6 are ONLIN.  When I press F3 to see Logical Drives, I see

LD 0 is RAID 5 with 104040 MB
LD 1 is RAID 0 with 34680 MB

When I boot the  server, all the BIOS messages go rolling by, and this one tweaks my interest:

2 Logical Drives Found
0 Physical Drives Found
2 Logical Drives Handles by BIOS
0 Physical Drives Handled by BIOS

Whatever I try to install (linux, Windows server), they all say the same thing "No hard drive found".
What am I doing wrong?  Is there some sort of step-by-step I can follow to make this work?

Thanks.

Help with Dell PERC RAID

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