dszego Posted October 8, 2015 Share #1 Posted October 8, 2015 Hi all, What should be the proper drive order in BIOS, to make sure that the system partition gets installed in the right place? I have the bootloader on a USB key internally - I believe this is the same as OEM hardware - and I boot off that. Then I've got a SATA card with 2 SSD's on it. One I'm using for cache, one seems just untouched by DSM. On the mobo, I've got 6 SATA ports, which connect to 6 drives that I'm letting DSM handle as my RAID array. However, I see the system partition installed on mobo SATA drive #3, which it then won't let me add to the array. My goal is to have drives in this order: USB-Bootloader PCI SATA SSD #1 - System PCI SATA SSD #2 - Cache Mobo SATA 1-6 - RAID6 array Is there some trick to forcing the system partition to boot off of SSD#1? Should I reinstall the system with only that drive plugged in, then add things afterwards? Thanks, David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbv3000 Posted October 9, 2015 Share #2 Posted October 9, 2015 dsm creates a system partition on all drives in an array, for resilience, when you create a volume or disk group how many drives does storage manager see 6 or 8? the usb boots xpe and dsm on the system partitions does the rest xpe may not have the drivers to recognise your pci ssd card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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