Hello,
First, please pardon my ignorance. I'm setting up my PE C1100. I bought it and some HP 300GB 15k SAS drives, model ef0300fatfd. The drives weren't detected by the BIOS, though I'm getting a grean light on them. I then found out that though the backplane supports the SAS drives the motherboard chipset doesn't. So, I bought a PERC 6/i and a cable, and connected the card to the SATA connectors on the backplane. The drives still aren't found. I updated the BIOS, but I'm getting an error trying to update the BMC/ESM. My understanding is that the PERC is not locked down, but isn't necessarily guaranteed to see non-dell drives. Any help / feedback is hugely appreciated.