Hi
I recently bought a used PowerEdge R710. Very nice machine.
It has a PERC 6/i in it. Now, I plan to use this server as a Freenas box, so that card isn't ideal. I did some research and found that the SAS 6/ir should be compatible and is better suited for this purpose.
So I ordered the card, but it doesn't seem to work. When I replace the PERC with the SAS 6/ir in the internal storage slot, The system won't boot, I get the message:
PCIe training error: integrated RAID
System halted!
If I plug it into a different PCIe slot it just doesn't recognize the card.
I already tried 2 cards, both with the same problem. One was a 0JW063 and the other one a 0YK838.
I am out of ideas here. Those cards should be compatible, right? Maybe I have 2 dead cards, but that seems very unlikely to me?
I hope someone can help me here.
Thanks already