Dell T410 with Perc6/i RAID initalization problem

I was given a Dell T410 server that has a Perc6/i raid card in it. The donor of the machine removed all of the drives from it, so I am starting from scratch on the OS and decided to give OMV a shot. I have a small SSD installed as my OS drive. I installed two 500GB drives as test drives and striped them for the RAID. OMV boots and sees the drive, but when I attempt to initialize the drive it crashes the RAID drive. I chose the EXT4 format for the drive.

I know RAID is a pain in the rear, but this machine uses a backplane RAID solution for the drives, and it only has two available SATA power connectors. I'm not against loosing the RAID card, just now sure how I will power the drives as I want to run a rather large NAS (30+TB).

Any thoughts on making the RAID / backplane work? I've had some classes in the past on Linux, but consider me a newbie on Linux.

Thanks for any help!!!

Zitat von ryecoaaron

Use OMV 3.x. It should support that machine better. I have one myself but I don't have the PERC card or backplane though.

Thank you, I will give OMV 3.x a shot. If I may ask, how many drives are you running and how did you get around the power issue by not using the backplane?