Users Guide

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Configuring RAID using the Option ROM Utility is disabled....................................................................................45
Warning Messages............................................................................................................................................................45
WARNING- Found virtual disks that are degraded ............................................................................................ 46
WARNING - Found virtual disks that are failed .................................................................................................. 46
WARNING - Found virtual disks that are degraded and failed ........................................................................46
Other errors appearing on the BIOS screen............................................................................................................... 47
BSOD is observed while booting on the NVMe configuration server............................................................. 47
S150 controller lists M.2 drives................................................................................................................................ 47
Error in displaying the CD/DVD-ROM while in legacy mode............................................................................ 47
Unavailable error under UEFI boot settings.......................................................................................................... 47
S150 does not display greater than ten virtual disks in the BIOS Configuration Utility or CTRL R ....... 47
Unable to delete virtual disks when there are more than 30 virtual disks present in the system........... 47
Virtual disk rebuild status in the BIOS Configuration Utility (<CTRL><R>) or in UEFI HII....................... 48
Physical disk - related errors.......................................................................................................................................... 48
The physical disk fails................................................................................................................................................. 48
Cannot initialize a physical disk ...............................................................................................................................48
Status LED is not working.........................................................................................................................................49
Cannot update NVMe PCIe SSD firmware by using Dell Update Package or DUP.................................... 49
NVMe drive error when inserted for the first time............................................................................................. 49
Third-party driver installation for NVMe PCIe SSD failing................................................................................ 49
Unable to find the NVMe PCIe SSD for operating system installation.......................................................... 49
Virtual disks - related errors........................................................................................................................................... 49
Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for Linux.......................................................................... 50
Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or iDRAC.................................. 50
S150 displays 22 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks................................................................ 50
S150 displays 43 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks................................................................ 50
Display of failed virtual disk in HII............................................................................................................................50
Virtual disk size in decimals is not supported while creating a VD...................................................................51
Cannot create a virtual disk.......................................................................................................................................51
A virtual disk is in a degraded state........................................................................................................................ 52
Cannot assign a dedicated hot spare to a virtual disk........................................................................................52
Cannot create a global hot spare ........................................................................................................................... 53
A dedicated hot spare fails........................................................................................................................................54
Failed or degraded virtual disk ................................................................................................................................ 54
Cannot create a virtual disk on selected physical disks ....................................................................................54
RAID disk created from the NVMe PCIe SSDs not appearing in operating system environment,
showing as partitioned disks ............................................................................................................................... 54
Cannot perform an Online Capacity Expansion or Reconfigure on a virtual disk ....................................... 55
Unable to configure RAID on NVMe PCIe SSD using a third party RAID configuration utility ................55
Chapter 9: Getting help...............................................................................................................56
Contacting Dell.................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag.............................................................................................. 56
Related documentation....................................................................................................................................................57
Documentation feedback.................................................................................................................................................57
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