"Are you saying that if my BIOS/SATA configuration was set to RAID 1 I would have needed the chipset/AHCI drivers for a successful install?" No, because you are not using the onboard SATA in RAID - your onboard SATA is used ONLY by your optical drive, so it should not be in RAID mode, and AHCI usually requires special drivers, which is unnecessary when using optical drives.  However, the chipset/AHCI drivers may have helped Windows to see the optical drive in such a way that installation could proceed (if it needs the RAID controller for the actual hard drives, you will NOT see that particular message - you will see a different message when Windows cannot find any hard drives to install to). "When would someone set RAID 1 for his sata configuration?" ONLY if using the onboard S110 RAID controller.  You are using the H310, so you don't want to mess with the onboard SATA RAID.
Hello everyone We've purchased a new Poweredge R320 server in order to install Windows Server R2 64bit. There are 2 disks inside and they came preconfgured as raid1.  I have changed the SATA configuration to RAID mode and also initialized RAID1  through PERC-H310 with no problems. When the server boots I can see the following msgs. 0 Non-Raid disk(s) have been found 1 Vitrual disk(s) has been found. I then boot from the windows media but no disks are found and is prompting me to browse and install the nesseray drivers. So I downloaded the SAS Raid drivers from this link: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/poweredge-r320.html#Drivers%20for%20OS%20Deployment The filename is: DRVR_WIN_M20VR_5.2.220.64_A02_ZPE.exe I extracted the contents to a USB, rebooted the server and when prompted for the drivers during the windows installation, I browsed to the USB which 2 files were located. nodev.inf percsas.inf I tried both of them but each time I get a message saying to make sure the correct drivers are found. It seems that these are not the right drivers.   Could you please direct me to the correct drivers? Or if you have any suggestions please let me know. Many thanks Goudeuk  P.S: I posted the same topic in the "blade" forum by mistake. Apologies.
Installing windows server 2008 R2 on Poweredge R320