Hello,
I have an ML110 G7 with (2) 7.2k SATA drives in RAID1 using the B110i RAID controller. When installing Server 2012 Datacenter R2, it does not recognize the RAID array when asking where to install, so I load the driver from a flash drive. Windows recognizes the driver, but as soon as I click Next upon selecting it, Windows says "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart" and restarts after a second.
Both drives are in perfect condition according to S.M.A.R.T. (0 bad sectors). The Windows installer is running off an 8GB flash drive created with the Windows 7 USB Media Creation Tool if that makes a difference. I was able to successfully install Windows to one of the drives using legacy SATA instead of RAID, so I don't think that's the issue. One strange thing I notice is that the array is configured as RAID 1 + 0 (the only option other than RAID 0) even though there are only 2 drives in the array; I assume it simply knows to make it RAID 1, but maybe it's an issue. The BIOS is on the 7/1/2013 release. Are there any other settings in the BIOS or RAID controller that I should check?
Thanks in advance for any advice,
- Eric