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Here is my current diagnostics now that I just have three disks connected and my parity sync is complete. unraid-diagnostics-20160522-0348.zip

Congrats! I was rooting for you. I've enjoyed following this thread. Almost sad to see it end.

Here is a diagnostic check I ran before I pulled three of the drives. I'll post the new one once the parity check completes. unraid-diagnostics-20160521-1816.zip

Okay, starting over. I'll report back when the parity check is done. Wish me luck.

I bought the server on eBay last week and it came with the drives. They are all Dell Enterprise Class SATA 3.0 drives which I believe are rebranded Western Digital RE4 drives. Do you think there might be something wrong with them?

Tried that. They are still showing as Unmountable after the format.

I have six 2TB HDDs in my Dell R710 server. I set one as a parity drive and the rest as disks for the array. I formatted the disks and it took 5 or 6 hours to run a parity check. This is what it looks like now. Did I miss a step or is something wrong? All of my drives say Unmountable.

Since you are already down, you could try a last ditch effort of hot plugging the card. Boot the system to your flashing environment without the card inserted, then put the card in the slot and try to flash it. Or, muck around in the BIOS and see if there is an option to not scan for card ROMs and see if that helps. That's not a bad idea. Keep in mind, I can't even get into the BIOS. When I turn it on, it immediately shows the error message and wont let me do anything. I was going to take the card into work where I have access to some Dell OptiPlex machines, and try plugging it into one of those and see if it will let me boot and flash it back. I might try your idea tonight of yanking the card out and booting the server to the boot menu, then sticking the card in and flashing it back. What are the chances of something bad happening if I plug in the card while the system is on?

Well, I learned the hard way that flashing a Dell PERC H700 Integrated was a bad idea. I got halfway through it and rebooted and now the R710 immediately says "Invalid PCIe card found in the Internal Storage Slot - System Halted" when it boots. I can't get passed it to flash the card back to Dell firmware.

Thanks Rob, I think you are right. I know I have read stories of people getting unRAID working while using a hardware raid setup but I don't recall any of them using a H700. I think I'll just end up buying a couple of HBAs that allow passthrough. I think I have a Dell H310 in a box somewhere. I'm just not sure which cables I will need to buy for it to interface with the backplane of my Dell R710.

New to unRAID. I have a Dell R710 with six 2TB HDDs in a RAID0 using a PERC H700 controller. I downloaded unRAID 6.2 Public Beta and when I went to add disks to the array, nothing shows up but the usb drive I am booting from. I also booted to a live CentOS 7 disk and formatted the 12TB gpt partition to ext4. I tried msdos mode, but 12TB was too big apparently. If gpt is not supported, do I need to create smaller partitions and use msdos partition table? I realize that JBOD mode is preferred, but my H700 controller does not support it. Eventually, I will buy a new HBA, but for now I just want to try unRAID and see if it fits my needs. Can anyone help? Thank you.