Are the drives 4k format or 512e? They are probably 4k advanced format and likely the reason they aren't detected properly. The PERC 6 doesn't support 4k drives.
Hello everyone, I have some difficulties with a Perc 6/i controller and Seagate drives. My server is a PowerEdge PE2950 with the bios version 2.7.0 (it should be the last one). I've bought 3 Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD SAS drive for building a RAID 5. The exact reference of my drives are Seagate ST2000NM0115 (2TB SAS 12Gb/s Enterprise 7200RPM 128MB). Initially I had a Perc 5/i who didn't well detect them, I've bought a Perc 6/i (by thinking that a newer RAID SAS controller will have better result) but still same. My Perc 6/i has the bios 6.3.3.0002 - Bios version 2.04.00 - Controler version 1.02-015B. When I plug the drive (even one or all three), the controller hang or is over slow. The Perc bios configuration utility detect them briefly but with a bad size of 237952 MB instead of 2 TB. Then they dissapears and the front led blink yellow and nothing more, nothing less. There is a new version of the firmware for my HDD but cause they are not detected, I'am unable to flash them too... Did you have any ideas about this issues? I've look almost everywhere online regarding perc 6/i issue with drive without finding a similar case to mine. Thank for your help. Alex.
Perc 6/i and Seagate SAS enterprise bad detected.