Perc5/i with sata to esata connection

[ulejas]

Have a quick question for you all on possible problems I may run into.

Have a PowerEdge 840 with Perc 5/i card 4 sata drives connected to it. Recently purchased an external esata drive for backups. I purchased a sata to esata adaptor. It runs from a sata port on the motherboard to a open bay where it's converted to an esata connect and then out to the exteranl drive. If I connect that and reboot will the server hang looking to boot from the new sata connection that I maybe on the motherboard, or will it know to still boot off the perc card?

Thanks for the help..

 

[PaulGillespie]

eh, it should still boot from the perc card. Have you checked in the bios for the boot order/device? Give it a try, you're not going to do any harm.