Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller S150 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Overview
- Physical Disks
- Virtual Disks
- Cabling the drives for the S150
- BIOS Configuration Utility
- Entering the BIOS configuration utility
- Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility
- Initializing the physical disks
- Creating the virtual disks
- Deleting the virtual disks
- Swapping two virtual disks
- Managing the hot spare disks
- Viewing the physical disks details
- Viewing the virtual disks details
- Rescan disks
- Controller Options
- Continue to boot
- UEFI RAID configuration utility
- Installing the drivers
- Troubleshooting your system
- Precautions for hot removal or hot insertion of NVMe drives
- Unable to configure Linux RAID using UEFI Configuration Utility
- Performance degradation after disabling SATA physical disk write cache policy
- Unable to modify any feature settings in UEFI or OPROM
- Extra reboot during OS installation
- OS installation failing on NVMe PCIe SSD with third-party driver
- Server performance is slow and crashes during OS installation on the SATA configuration
- Server performance is slow during OS installation on the NVMe configuration
- System startup issues
- System does not boot
- Controller mode is set incorrectly at System Setup
- Boot mode, boot sequence, and or boot sequence retry are set incorrectly
- Bootable virtual disk is in a failed state
- The boot order is incorrect for a bootable virtual disk
- A Non-RAID virtual disk is no longer in first position in the BIOS configuration utility list after a system reboot
- The BIOS configuration utility option does not display
- Configuring RAID using the Option ROM Utility is disabled
- Warning Messages
- Other errors appearing on the BIOS screen
- BSOD is observed while booting on the NVMe configuration server
- S150 controller lists M.2 drives
- Error in displaying the CD/DVD-ROM while in legacy mode
- Unavailable error under UEFI boot settings
- S150 does not display greater than ten virtual disks in the BIOS Configuration Utility or CTRL R
- Unable to delete virtual disks when there are more than 30 virtual disks present in the system
- Virtual disk rebuild status in the BIOS Configuration Utility (
) or in UEFI HII
- Physical disk - related errors
- The physical disk fails
- Cannot initialize a physical disk
- Status LED is not working
- Cannot update NVMe PCIe SSD firmware by using Dell Update Package or DUP
- NVMe drive error when inserted for the first time
- Third-party driver installation for NVMe PCIe SSD failing
- Unable to find the NVMe PCIe SSD for operating system installation
- Virtual disks - related errors
- Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for Linux
- Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or iDRAC
- S150 displays 22 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks
- S150 displays 43 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks
- Display of failed virtual disk in HII
- Virtual disk size in decimals is not supported while creating a VD
- Cannot create a virtual disk
- A virtual disk is in a degraded state
- Cannot assign a dedicated hot spare to a virtual disk
- Cannot create a global hot spare
- A dedicated hot spare fails
- Failed or degraded virtual disk
- Cannot create a virtual disk on selected physical disks
- RAID disk created from the NVMe PCIe SSDs not appearing in operating system environment, showing as partitioned disks
- Cannot perform an Online Capacity Expansion or Reconfigure on a virtual disk
- Unable to configure RAID on NVMe PCIe SSD using a third party RAID configuration utility
- Getting help
Creating the device driver media for Windows driver
installation
Downloading drivers for PERC S150 from the Dell support website
for all operating systems
1. Go to www.dell.com/support/drivers.
2. In the Product Selection section, enter the service tag of your system in the Service Tag or Express Service Code field.
NOTE: If you do not have the service tag, select Automatically detect my Service Tag for me to allow the system
to automatically detect your service tag, or select Choose from a list of all Dell products to select your product from
the Product Selection page.
3. Select the Operating System, Category, Release Date, and Importance from the respective drop-down lists.
The drivers that are applicable to your selections are displayed.
4. Download the drivers that you require to a USB drive, CD, or DVD.
5. During the operating system installation, use the media that you created with the Load Driver option to load mass
storage drivers. For more information on reinstalling the operating system, see the operating system document at https://
www.dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals.
NOTE: For systems with NVMe PCIe SSD, ensure the S150 driver is installed to discover the RAID disk in your operating
system environment.
NOTE: During the Windows OS installation using the onboard optical disk drive, while loading the S150 driver, a warning
message may appear: No new device drivers were found. Make sure the installation media contains the correct drivers, ,
when SATA is in RAID mode. Perform the following steps to proceed with the installation:
a. Click OK.
b. Close the warning window.
c. Click Install Now, and follow the instructions on the screen.
Downloading drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic
Tools media for Windows
1. Insert the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostics Tools media in your system.
The Welcome to Dell Service and Diagnostic Utilities screen is displayed.
2. Select your system model and operating system.
For the list of supported operating systems, see Supported operating systems.
3. Click Continue.
4. From the list of drivers displayed, select the driver you require.
5. Select the self-extracting zip file and click Run.
6. Copy the driver to a CD, DVD, or USB drive.
Repeat this step for all the drivers you require.
7. During the operating system installation, use the media that you created with the Load Driver option to load mass storage
drivers.
For more information on reinstalling the operating system, see the relevant section for your operating system.
Accessing ZP files
1. Download the ZP file. The downloaded file will be with extension .exe.
2. Rename the file extension to .zip.
3. Extract the content.
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Installing the drivers