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Question posted by phiosito on February 9th, 2014

How To Setup Poweredge 840 Sas Raid Controller

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Answer #1: Posted by MWatDell on February 9th, 2014 9:09 PM

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Hi phiosito

I assume you are having a SAS 5i/R raid controller card in your PowerEdge 840.

To setup the raid configuration, please refer to the manual on Page 30:-
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_dell_adapters/dell-sas-5ir-intgtd-and-adptr_User's%20Guide_en-us.pdf

Hope this answers your question.

MW@Dell

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