windows server install not recognising SAS drive

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taylorcam

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Hi,
I purchased a old dell poweredge 2950.
I plug in the 15K 300GB drive and it spins up.
RAID recognises it and when I boot into the windows server 2012 install it does not recognise the drive.
I have tried everything but the windows server install does not recognise the drives.

Please help.
I kneed to install windows server

PS do I kneed the driver from dell, if so do I use the exe file even thought I am installing windows
Thanks
 
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Go to http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/poweredge-2950 and download the SAS drivers you need, I'm assuming the SAS Non-RAID drivers, just download the .exe and use it. It will extract the files, then check the files and make sure there a .CAT file in there to verify those are actually drivers. Now you will need to take that folder it made with all the files and put it on some external media like a USB drive and load drivers during the install.
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Go to http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/poweredge-2950 and download the SAS drivers you need, I'm assuming the SAS Non-RAID drivers, just download the .exe and use it. It will extract the files, then check the files and make sure there a .CAT file in there to verify those are actually drivers. Now you will need to take that folder it made with all the files and put it on some external media like a USB drive and load drivers during the install.
 
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What controller is the drive attached to? You need the driver for that specific controller/raid card/hba

These were the ones offered thru dell:
Disk Storage Options:
PowerVault NX1950 Unified Storage Solution
PowerVault MD3000 Modular Disk Storage Array
PowerVault MD1000 SAS external storage system
Dell/EMC products:
Dell/EMC AX150 and AX150i Networked Storage Array
Dell/EMC CX300 Networked Storage Array
Dell/EMC CX3-10c Networked Multi-protocol Storage Array
Dell/EMC CX3-20 Networked Storage Array
Dell/EMC CX3-40 Networked Storage Array
Dell/EMC CX3-80 Networked Storage Array
 
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