I guess that's the next step is to try it with another computer. It has a battery (don't know of the charge status but it's been plugged in for a few days)
And the dell perc bios shows up, that's how I setup the raid 6 and got it initialized. I have another supermicro board (dual xeon) That I can try it out on, does anyone know that for sure the dell perc will show up in storage adapters even if it doesn't have an active raid configured? While I can test it on another system I'd rather not go through the hassle of moving all the cabling and drives to another server if I don't have too.