A Dell Power. Edge Server, Windows 2. Battle Over SAS RAID Drivers. It seemed like a simple enough task Install Windows Server 2. R2 Standard x. 64 on a Dell Power. Edge 2. 95. 0 x. 64 server that is about a year old. The server contains three 5. GB SATA drives plugged into an internal PERC 5i SAS RAID controller. The server also lacked an internal floppy drive, and there was no available slot to add one. The problem started out being that the Windows installer didnt see the systems hard drives during the setup process. This is a common problem, especially with newer RAID controllers. Normally you can load the manufacturers drivers during the Windows setup by pressing F6 S to specify mass storage drivers once the blue installation screen appears. I had to search long and hard to find the Dell Windows Server 2. PERC 5i because for some reason when you enter your servers system tag and search for SAS RAID drivers only the 3. I added the 6. 4 bit RAID controller drivers to my floppy disk, but when I pressed F6 S to specify new drivers, Windows did not detect the presence of my USB floppy drive, which I had plugged into the USB ports on the front of the server. I rebooted the server with the drive into plugged into a USB port on the back of the server, but had the same result. Next I tried copying the drivers to my USB flash drive, which I tried in the ports on both the front and the back of the server, and the installation program failed to see that drive as well. I searched support. I didnt find one. The Update Services Group Policy Settings Are Not Accessible Sbs 2008' title='The Update Services Group Policy Settings Are Not Accessible Sbs 2008' />Im curious if some of the group policys need to be changed and or performed differently on Windows 10. Ill have to look and see if my mapped drives show up on my. Top 5 Networking How to. How to Setup Windows File Sharing How to A ccess to Network Resources How to Troubleshoot Network is not accessible. I did find a link to the Dell USB Key F6 Driver Utility, which allows you to copy mass storage drivers to a USB flash drive and have them recognized by Windows during an installation. This sounded like exactly what I needed. I downloaded the USB utility, and when I executed it I was informed this program would format my flash drive, which would obviously delete everything I had saved to it. I went and found a different drive that I didnt care if its contents were deleted, and ran the program. It took about three seconds to run, and I went back to my server and ran the Windows 2. I tried to view the contents of the flash drive on a Windows XP computer, but I was informed the flash drive was not formatted. Obviously, I had done something wrong. After reading the USB utilitys readme file, I found I had missed some very important details. Information from the USB utilitys readme file are highlighted in red. One of the files in the driver package is TXTSETUP. OEM. Edit. TXTSETUP. OEM with NOTEPAD or a text editor of your choice. In theDefaults section locate the line that starts with scsi. Thevalue on the right hand side of the equals sign must represent the. Windows Server 2. The values permitted on the right hand side of the equals sign are defined in the scsi section. If the value on the right hand side represents the Windows 2. The following table lists the drivers that are available for download for 9. G servers. The tableindicates whether the TXTSETUP. OEM file needs to be updated at the time this document was written Oct 2. Dell SAS 5E Adapter No change needed. Dell SAS 5i Integrated No change needed. Dell PERC 5E Adapter Must be changed. Dell PERC 5i Integrated Must be changed. Adaptec 3. 93. 20. A Controller No change needed. LSI Logic CERC ATA 1. Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC 4DC Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC 4Di Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC 4SC Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC 4eDC Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC 4eDi Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC 4eSi Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC3DC Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC3DCL Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC3QC Must be changed. LSI Logic PERC3SC Must be changed. I had the Dell PERC 5i Integrated controller, so I had to modify TXTSETUP. OEM for the flash utility to operate properly. In the TXTSETUP. OEM files Defaults section I had to change the line that starts with scsi PERC3. PERCsas, where percsas. RAID controller driver. Local administrator rights are required to create a bootable flashdrive from the USBKey. Prep. F6 Utility. Flash drives up to 1. GB in sizeare supported. After the USB key is prepared by the USBKey. Prep. F6. Utility, the USB keys contents are not accessible from Windows. Ifthe USB key is plugged into a system running the Windows operatingsystem, Windows may report that the USB key has an unrecognized filesystem or that it is uninitialized. However the USB keys contents maybe accessed from DOS, by using floppy emulation. Hindi Typing Tutor Free Download Full Version 2013. That pretty much explained why I couldnt read the drives contents from my XP machine. Windows 2. 00. 3 installation instructions Place the USB key into a USB port of the system on which you areinstalling Windows Server 2. Insert the Windows CD into the CDdrive. Reboot the system. During boot press F2 to enter the BIOS setuputility. If your system has a Dell Remote Access Controller 5 DRAC 5 then also press Ctrl E, when prompted, to enter Remote Access Setup, also known as the Remote Access Configuration Utility. My server has a Dell Remote Access Controller 5, so I had to press Ctrl E to access the DRAC configuration. Within the Remote Access Configuration Utility, select Virtual Media. Configuration. Select Virtual Media and select Detached. Select. Virtual Flash and select Disabled. Save these changes and exit the. Remote Access Configuration Utility. I changed the Virtual Flash setting from Attached to Detached. Virtual Flash was already disabled, so I saved the changes and exited the Remote Access Configuration Utility. Within the BIOS setup utility, select USB Flash Drive Emulation Type. On this menu select Floppy emulation for the USB key. Save this changeand exit the BIOS setup utility. Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Leadership Style Pdf on this page. I entered the servers BIOS and changed Drive Emulation Type from Auto to Floppy Emulation. I saved my settings and exited the BIOS setup utility and rebooted with my flash drive inserted into one of the front USB ports. I booted from the Windows Server 2. CD, pressed F6 S to specify an additional mass storage driver, and the setup program found the PERC drivers on the USB drive Finally, my installation could progress My elation was short lived, though. When I got to the part of the installation where I could specify the boot partition size, the maximum size Windows would allow me to use was 9. MB yes, thats megabytes, not gigabytes. I rebooted again and pressed Ctrl R to enter the PERC controller configuration utility and confirmed my RAID 5 array was indeed 9. GB as in gigabytes. Just to make sure nothing was corrupted on my array I began the array verification process and left the site for the evening. Of course I would find out later the array was just fine. The next day I emailed Dell tech support and explained how the Windows installation program would only allow me to create a partition of 9. MB. The tech who responded to me suggested that I download the Dell Installation and Server Management Diskand boot from the. RAID array and perform the Windows installation. I downloaded and burned the. CD. I chose to install a Windows 2. Server Assistant required, and was finally able to successfully install Windows onto a partition much greater than 9. MB in size In hindsight I may have been able to just slipstream the controller drivers along with Service Pack 2 into the Windows 2. Server source files, but Im thinking that probably would have only seen the drive array as 9. MB in size as well.