  This is normal, but all it shows is that the controller is at least minimally functional. Most hardware failures don't result in a dead piece of circuitry, but rather malfunctioning circuitry.
Hi, I am not a hardware person at all, so please be patience with me.  I have recently acquired two PowerEdge 2950. Currently I do not have any OS installed, nor do i know whether the two hard drive that came with it are actually functional. I install the two hard drives in the server and powered up. The hard drives blinked once and the indicator stayed off. I try to get into the raid controller to see whether or not the hard drives are working, or showing up, as suggested by my worker.  Supposedly there should be an option (Ctrl + R) on start up to enter RAID controller BIOS, but its missing from my server for reason. I thought the bio for server was old, therefore, I updated to the latest (2.0.7 i believe). Still, it is now showing the option. I then thought may be the RAID controller is not recolonized by the server, so I unplugged the RAM from RAID controller and started the server, but resulted in an error stating that RAM is missing.  All the above observations are the same in both servers that I have. Ultimately, I am just trying to install a server OS onto these servers and now the hard drives are not recognized by the server.  Please help me with this issue. Thanks, Qun
PowerEdge 2950 Boot