We work in an environment with machines running mostly CentOS 7.3 but from times to times we need to switch to Windows 10. To manage those changes, we have a PXE boot solution with tree options: • boot currently locally installed OS • reinstall CentOS (minimal OS with SaltStack recipe) • reinstall Windows 10 (restore a clone of a Windows 10 disk image with clonezilla) The issue we're facing is that Windows 10 doesn't support the Raid Controller PERC H310. So basically, when restoring the Windows image, we can't boot on it because Windows doesn't find the drives. Same issue when trying a clean install, Windows doesn't find any local disk. I've tested every solution I've found like testing with previous version driver during Windows install. Doesn't help so far. Also, I'm sure of the issue since when attaching the drive directly to the motherboard (so skipping the raid controller) it works. The PERC H310 Integrated RAID Controller Card from Dell™ is an ideal add-on for your Dell Server. The Adapter comes with integrated cache for quick storage. I am pretty sure this is done at boot time through your PERC integrated. The right RAID controller. In the driver download section for a T710. Any suggested solutions will be appreciated. Edit: a new version of Windows 10 Pro for Workstations could maybe help you out this fall too if you can wait. Is a high-end edition of Windows 10 Pro, comes with unique support for server grade PC hardware and is designed to meet demanding needs of mission critical and compute intensive workloads. • Expanded hardware support You will need to preinstall the driver to make it work (slipstream) or to give the setup the driver. The easiest way, in the setup, some other forum give that file to get to give the setup the driver and copy those folder to an USB stick and you will be ready to install T7600-win10-A01-0P54F T7600 win10 x64 storage 6DD29_A00-00 x64 iaStorS T7600-win10-A01-0P54F T7600 win10 x86 storage 6DD29_A00-00 x86 iaStorS. I have a Dell T420 with a Perc H710 Monolithic Adapter running Windows 2012. It is a domain controller, file server and print server and a Ubiquiti controller, no remote applications though. It has 6x500GB drives in RAID 5. I've noticed a message that it is in need of a new firmware and driver update. I have no problem updating firmware and drivers on most devices but this one is company critical and I haven't worked on Servers or RAID arrays much. I'm a bit nervous to do this and have put it off for awhile but it's time that I should get it done. I'm also experiencing a disk error on one of the drives that was replaced after a failure due to a power outage that I wasn't able to right in time. Dell walked me through the replacement of it and it doesn't have any warnings in OpenManage. It is disk error 153. The error is the IO operation at block (one of 2 addresses) for disk 3 was retried. I've dug through Dell's support forums and technet but haven't found a solution yet. It also has iDRAC7 which I've never used and don't know if it's even set up. Current firmware is: Firmware Version 21.2.0-0007 Minimum Required Firmware Version 21.3.1-0001 Driver Version 6.801.05.00 Storport Driver Version 6.2.9200.16813 Any pointers, information, or solid guides would be much appreciated. I'm probably behind by a few updates now so if I have to update them one at a time instead of jumping to the newest one would also be useful to know. Thanks in advance! If you can setup the iDRAC, that is the easiest way to upgrade your firmware. You can also do it through System Services(F10) during post, but that will require downtime. If those don't work, you can use Dell Repository Manager to download a package for your entire system and load it to a DOS bootable USB using something like Rufus. Boot from USB, let the installer run. This will update EVERYTHING in the system unless you modify the package for just the updates you want. Will also require downtime.
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