Compatibility Guide

52 RAID Controller Supported Servers, Operating Systems, Firmware, and Driver Versions
See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide for more information on basic and
enhanced Storage Management Services.
Four types of controllers are included in this section:
• The RAID controller card group contains the following controllers: PERC 2, PERC 2/SC, PERC 2/DC,
PERC 3/SC, PERC 3/DC, PERC 3/DCL, PERC 3/QC, PERC 4/SC, PERC 4/DC, PERC 4e/DC,
PERC 5/e, CERC ATA 100/4 Channel, CERC SATA 4/2s, and CERC SATA 1.5/6 Channel.
• The RAID on motherboard (ROMB) group includes the following controllers: PERC 2/Si, PERC 3/Si,
PERC 3/Di, PERC 4/Di, PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e/Si, and CERC SATA 1.5/2S.
• The internal mirroring group, provided through the system BIOS, includes the PERC 4/IM controller.
• The LSI 1020/1030 embedded SCSI controller.
NOTE: The firmware and drivers listed in this section refer to the minimum supported version as of the publication
date of this document. Later versions of the firmware and drivers may also be supported or required. For the most
recent driver and firmware requirements, see the Dell support website at support.dell.com or to the readme.txt file
for either the basic (Array Manager) or enhanced Storage Management Service.
Version of Storage Management Service in RAID Controller Tables
The left column in each RAID controller table is labeled either Array Manager or enhanced Storage
Management Service. Versions 2.7 to 3.7 are for Array Manager (also called basic Storage Management
Service). Versions 1.1 and 1.2 are for the enhanced Storage Management Service.
NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management readme for the most current
information on the RAID controllers.
Key to Table Footnotes
Some drivers in the following tables are marked with either one or two asterisks. You can refer to the
following paragraphs for more information:
Operating System and Driver Discrepancies*
Some drivers display as one driver number in Array Manager and another driver number in Microsoft
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Windows Server™ 2000 and 2003. The Array Manager standalone install and the Server Administrator
silent install require driver version 2.8.0.6076 or higher. The Array Manager Utilities display this driver as
2.8.0.6076. The Device Manager for Microsoft Windows
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2000 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003,
however, display driver version 2.8.0.6076 as 2.8.0.6085.
Linux Driver Included in RPM **
The 1.1.4 Linux driver is included in RPM 2302 (Red Hat Package Manager 2302).