Dell PowerEdge R210 Information Update - Page 1

Information Update eSATA Device and Software RAID Solutions Booting from an eSATA device is not supported when the system is set to RAID mode with software RAID PERC S100 enabled. eSATA does not support hot-swapping in ATA mode. The following table lists the eSATA device options under different SATA controller modes. Mode Bootable Hot-Swappable ATA AHCI RAID (S100 enabled) Yes No Yes Yes No No Software RAID PERC S100/S300 is not supported on the following Windows®-based operating systems. Operating System Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V role enabled Edition Enterprise, Web, and Standard Windows Server 2008 with SP2 with Hyper-V role enabled Enterprise, Web, and Standard Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V role enabled Enterprise, Web, and Standard NOTE: Software RAID PERC S100/S300 is not supported on Linux-based operating systems. September 2009