SAS drives MUST be connected to a SAS controller. The S130 is NOT a SAS controller, thus it takes only SATA drives. You should never use the S-series controller, even for SATA drives - they are garbage. Get a real SAS RAID controller (like the H730) for your SAS drives.
Hi, I have two Dell servers: Poweredge R630 8-drive with PERC S130 and R420 8-drive. R420 works very well with 2.5mm SAS 6Gbps 10k 300GB and 900 GB hard drives (HDEBC03DBA51 / OMTV7G and 0B26025 / H5WGN) but none of them are recognized in R630. The caddy top green light is constantly flashing but Lifecycle hardware diagnostic gives error 2000-0141 "no hard drive detected". No hard drive is visible in BIOS under ATA, AHCI or RAID settings. I have double checked all cables, SATA-SAS settings and backplane connections, installed most up-to-date firmware but no success. Could it be R630 issue? Or is it hard drive incompatibility between R630 and R420? Many thanks for your help in advance!
R630 no hard drive detected in BIOS