Hi;

I have an old Dell Poweredge 800 that still has the even older SCSI disk controller with four 10K drives. Two of the drives have failed and attempting to bebuld. However, the controller alarm keeps beeping and won't shut off!

My users, who happen to be seated near it, are not happy and the only way I can silence it is to shut the whole unit down; should not have to do that.

So.... is there any way to completely disarm/disable/turn off this annoying beep? Please??

Thanks for any help you can offer....

Dan

Hi,

I have a R910 with a H700 and some new Crucial M550 SSDs.

The controller recognizes the drives as physical disks but marks them as "foreign" in physical disk management. They don't show up under virtual disk management and I can't add them to any virtual disks. I have the newest H700 firmware.

Also the drives are SED capable so it may have something to do with that. If I try to import foreign disks under virtual disk management it says I have to create a key. If I try to do that the box just freezes while trying to make the key.

Thanks

Hi All,

I have 3 servers T410 with a Raid 5 with 3 HDD's on each one and the HDD drivers are Barracuda ES.2 SATA 1TB RPM: 7200 Firmware MA08.

I have to replace a HDD on each one and I would like to know what kind of HDD I can get to replace the defective ones.

Regards Fmarino

I have a PowerEdge T110.  I have two disks configured for RAID 1.  I have swapped out both old 250 GB Disks with 1 TB Disks.  I am unable to figure out how I grow the Virtual Disk to make use of the expanded capacity.  The physical disks show the available space but I am not finding where to expand the virtual?  I have read the documents and it makes reference to OCE (Online Capacity Expansion).  I don't see this tool anywhere. Am I missing software/version etc.

T110 OS - WIndows 2008R2 (pretty up to date on patches)

PERC S100 - Driver 1.0.1-0021  StarPort Driver Version - 6.1.7.601/17514

Dell Open Manage Server Administrator - 6.4.0

I have looked in the RAID Management console during boot (Ctrl-R) and in OMSA... nothing to increase the size.

Any support or guidance would be appreciated.

Chris

I have an Dell PowerEdge R310 with a SAS 6iR Raid controller with a RAID1 volume of 2x 1TB SATA disks. The SAS Raid controller is a LSI1068E chipset. I now bought a new disk to replace a faulty one in the RAID1 volume. A bought the drive with Dell 400-18614 1TB SATA 7.2k 3.5" HD Hot Plug Fully Assembled - Kit It looks that this is a seagate ST1000NM0033. This is a 6GB SATA drive. When I replaced the faulty disk - the RAID1 set did not resync. In fact the controller didn't see the disk. When I plugged the disk into another (new) bay, then the controller did see the disk, however, it detected it as a disk with only 3950MB (4GB) ! Any idea's if this disk is : - broken ? - not backwards compatible with 3GB SATA ? - needs jumpers set to be compatible ? thanks in advance !

Hello all, 

The firmware in my PowerEdge T620 PERC H710 got corrupted somehow and the server is not decting the two 1TB SAS drives.  It is giving this error: 

Host Adapter Bus 2 Dev 0

F/W is in fault state

And the DELL Lifecycle controller is not detecting the PERC H710 and hence the hard drives. 

I would like to know if there is a way to delete the corrupted firmware in PERC H710 or reset the card to it's factory setting and reinstall the driver.  I have tried copying the extracted driver files into a USB and booting from it, but was not successful (gave me 'BOOTMGR is missing' error).  Or am I looking at purchasing a new PERC card. I still have warranty thought.  The server was shipped from DELL on June 2013. 

Any kind of help or thoughs would be appreciated. Thanks. 

Hi everyone,

I've a brand new PowerEdge R820 server and I'm not able to update the PERC H710 firmware (21.1.0-0007, A03) to the latest version 21.2.0-0007, A04.

I've tried with a bootable DOS USB key with the files inside but the update software just says "no controller detected".

The server is online since 2 weeks now so there is no RAID rebuild ongoing and I've tried also with PERC H810 firmware, no luck.

Any advice? Thanks

Daniele

Hallo,

i recently bought an used DELL PERC H710p but i cant update the firmware nor install the driver. I always get an error like:
"No supported controllers present or detected"

First i thought it's because the PERC H710p is not supported on an DELL R710 Server. But after some research i found something odd.

The reason why the firmware update fails is simply the fact, that the "SUBDEV=1f38" required during the update can't be fond. My "H710p" has a different SUBDEV. Its SUBDEV is 1f77. So my question is, did i bought some "fake" controller ?

If its not a "fake" controller, what must i do to update my H710p and how do i install the drivers ?

Thank You

Here the log from Megafl:

Adapter #0

==============================================================================
                    Versions
                ================
Product Name    : PERC H710P Adapter
Serial No       : xxxxx - Im not sure if its save to post a sn on the internet. But if a DELL employ need it to verify the controller, please send me an pm.
FW Package Build: 21.0.2-0002

                    Mfg. Data
                ================
Mfg. Date       : 04/01/13
Rework Date     : 04/01/13
Revision No     : A00
Battery FRU     : N/A

                Image Versions in Flash:
                ================
BIOS Version       : 5.30.00_4.12.05.00_0x05110000
Ctrl-R Version     : 4.00-0014
Preboot CLI Version: 05.00-03:#%00008
FW Version         : 3.130.05-1587
NVDATA Version     : 2.1108.03-0093
Boot Block Version : 2.03.00.00-0003
BOOT Version       : 06.253.57.219

                Pending Images in Flash
                ================
None

                PCI Info
                ================
Vendor Id       : 1000
Device Id       : 005b
SubVendorId     : 1028
SubDeviceId     : 1f77

Host Interface  : PCIE

Number of Frontend Port: 0
Device Interface  : PCIE

Number of Backend Port: 8
Port  :  Address
0        4433221102000000
1        4433221103000000
2        0000000000000000
3        0000000000000000
4        0000000000000000
5        0000000000000000
6        0000000000000000
7        0000000000000000

                HW Configuration
                ================
SAS Address      : 590b11c04b521300
BBU              : Present
Alarm            : Absent
NVRAM            : Present
Serial Debugger  : Present
Memory           : Present
Flash            : Present
Memory Size      : 1024MB
TPM              : Absent
On board Expander: Absent
Upgrade Key      : Absent
Temperature sensor for ROC    : Present
Temperature sensor for controller    : Present

ROC temperature : 57  degree Celcius
Controller temperature : 57  degree Celcius

                Settings
                ================
Current Time                     : 20:28:33 9/4, 2013
Predictive Fail Poll Interval    : 300sec
Interrupt Throttle Active Count  : 16
Interrupt Throttle Completion    : 50us
Rebuild Rate                     : 30%
PR Rate                          : 30%
BGI Rate                         : 30%
Check Consistency Rate           : 30%
Reconstruction Rate              : 30%
Cache Flush Interval             : 4s
Max Drives to Spinup at One Time : 4
Delay Among Spinup Groups        : 12s
Physical Drive Coercion Mode     : 128MB
Cluster Mode                     : Disabled
Alarm                            : Disabled
Auto Rebuild                     : Enabled
Battery Warning                  : Enabled
Ecc Bucket Size                  : 15
Ecc Bucket Leak Rate             : 1440 Minutes
Restore HotSpare on Insertion    : Disabled
Expose Enclosure Devices         : Disabled
Maintain PD Fail History         : Disabled
Host Request Reordering          : Enabled
Auto Detect BackPlane Enabled    : SGPIO/i2c SEP
Load Balance Mode                : Auto
Use FDE Only                     : Yes
Security Key Assigned            : No
Security Key Failed              : No
Security Key Not Backedup        : No
Default LD PowerSave Policy      : Controller Defined
Maximum number of direct attached drives to spin up in 1 min : 20
Any Offline VD Cache Preserved   : No
Allow Boot with Preserved Cache  : No
Disable Online Controller Reset  : No
PFK in NVRAM                     : No
Use disk activity for locate     : No

                Capabilities
                ================
RAID Level Supported             : RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID00, RAID10, RAID50, RAID60, PRL 11, PRL 11 with spanning, PRL11-RLQ0 DDF layout with no span, PRL11-RLQ0 DDF layout with span
Supported Drives                 : SAS, SATA

Allowed Mixing:

Mix in Enclosure Allowed

                Status
                ================
ECC Bucket Count                 : 0

                Limitations
                ================
Max Arms Per VD          : 32
Max Spans Per VD         : 8
Max Arrays               : 128
Max Number of VDs        : 64
Max Parallel Commands    : 1008
Max SGE Count            : 60
Max Data Transfer Size   : 8192 sectors
Max Strips PerIO         : 42
Min Strip Size           : 64 KB
Max Strip Size           : 1.0 MB
Max Configurable CacheCade Size: 512 GB
Current Size of CacheCade      : 0 GB
Current Size of FW Cache       : 887 MB

                Device Present
                ================
Virtual Drives    : 1
  Degraded        : 0
  Offline         : 0
Physical Devices  : 2
  Disks           : 2
  Critical Disks  : 0
  Failed Disks    : 0

                Supported Adapter Operations
                ================
Rebuild Rate                    : Yes
CC Rate                         : Yes
BGI Rate                        : Yes
Reconstruct Rate                : Yes
Patrol Read Rate                : Yes
Alarm Control                   : Yes
Cluster Support                 : No
BBU                             : No
Spanning                        : Yes
Dedicated Hot Spare             : Yes
Revertible Hot Spares           : Yes
Foreign Config Import           : Yes
Self Diagnostic                 : Yes
Allow Mixed Redundancy on Array : No
Global Hot Spares               : Yes
Deny SCSI Passthrough           : No
Deny SMP Passthrough            : No
Deny STP Passthrough            : No
Support Security                : Yes
Snapshot Enabled                : No
Support the OCE without adding drives : Yes
Support PFK                     : No

                Supported VD Operations
                ================
Read Policy          : Yes
Write Policy         : Yes
IO Policy            : Yes
Access Policy        : Yes
Disk Cache Policy    : Yes
Reconstruction       : Yes
Deny Locate          : No
Deny CC              : No
Allow Ctrl Encryption: No
Enable LDBBM         : Yes
Support Breakmirror  : Yes
Power Savings        : Yes

                Supported PD Operations
                ================
Force Online                            : Yes
Force Offline                           : Yes
Force Rebuild                           : Yes
Deny Force Failed                       : No
Deny Force Good/Bad                     : No
Deny Missing Replace                    : No
Deny Clear                              : Yes
Deny Locate                             : No
Support Temperature                     : Yes
Disable Copyback                        : No
Enable JBOD                             : No
Enable Copyback on SMART                : No
Enable Copyback to SSD on SMART Error   : No
Enable SSD Patrol Read                  : No
PR Correct Unconfigured Areas           : Yes
Enable Spin Down of UnConfigured Drives : No
Disable Spin Down of hot spares         : Yes
Spin Down time                          : 30
T10 Power State                         : Yes
                Error Counters
                ================
Memory Correctable Errors   : 0
Memory Uncorrectable Errors : 0

                Cluster Information
                ================
Cluster Permitted     : No
Cluster Active        : No

                Default Settings
                ================
Phy Polarity                     : 0
Phy PolaritySplit                : 0
Background Rate                  : 30
Strip Size                       : 64kB
Flush Time                       : 4 seconds
Write Policy                     : WB
Read Policy                      : Adaptive
Cache When BBU Bad               : Disabled
Cached IO                        : No
SMART Mode                       : Mode 6
Alarm Disable                    : No
Coercion Mode                    : 128MB
ZCR Config                       : Unknown
Dirty LED Shows Drive Activity   : No
BIOS Continue on Error           : No
Spin Down Mode                   : None
Allowed Device Type              : SAS/SATA Mix
Allow Mix in Enclosure           : Yes
Allow HDD SAS/SATA Mix in VD     : No
Allow SSD SAS/SATA Mix in VD     : No
Allow HDD/SSD Mix in VD          : No
Allow SATA in Cluster            : No
Max Chained Enclosures           : 4
Disable Ctrl-R                   : No
Enable Web BIOS                  : No
Direct PD Mapping                : Yes
BIOS Enumerate VDs               : Yes
Restore Hot Spare on Insertion   : No
Expose Enclosure Devices         : No
Maintain PD Fail History         : No
Disable Puncturing               : No
Zero Based Enclosure Enumeration : Yes
PreBoot CLI Enabled              : No
LED Show Drive Activity          : Yes
Cluster Disable                  : Yes
SAS Disable                      : No
Auto Detect BackPlane Enable     : SGPIO/i2c SEP
Use FDE Only                     : Yes
Enable Led Header                : No
Delay during POST                : 0
EnableCrashDump                  : No
Disable Online Controller Reset  : No
EnableLDBBM                      : Yes
Un-Certified Hard Disk Drives    : Allow
Treat Single span R1E as R10     : Yes
Max LD per array                 : 16
Power Saving option              : Don't spin down unconfigured drives
Don't spin down Hot spares
Don't Auto spin down Configured Drives
Power settings apply to all drives - individual PD/LD power settings cannot be set
Max power savings option is  not allowed for LDs. Only T10 power conditions are to be used.
Cached writes are not used for spun down VDs
Can schedule disable power savings at controller level
Default spin down time in minutes: 30
Enable JBOD                     : No
TTY Log In Flash                 : No
Auto Enhanced Import             : No
BreakMirror RAID Support         : Yes
Disable Join Mirror              : Yes
Time taken to detect CME         : 60s

Exit Code: 0x00

We have a customer that has several PE R620's that have their disks configured in Raid1.

Both of the drives in each server need to be replaced as their reliability is in question (they have taken a fall!!).

Can this be done whilst the servers are operational, by just replacing one disk, allowing it to stripe (how can we confirm it's finished?! - No Dell admin tools installed), and then replace the second disk?

If we used this method, would there be any issue after a reboot, from the RAID controller looking for the old disk serial numbers, or will it just 'forget' the old drives once the new ones are fully striped?

Thanks!

Heya!

We have a coloed Dell R410 with 14GB of memory - its primary operating drive is a 1TB Enterprise NAS HDD - which the OS is on. We intended to create a raid 0 array from the SSD's to create a high preformance HD platform for a gaming application a client is launching - however in Windows 2008 R2, nor in BIOS are the SSDs being seen.

Could be there something that Im missing? Just looking to head in the right direction here.

Thanks!

Aaron

hello,

i will to buy 1 server for virtualizations type tower but i want that this server support array raid 5.

i have 4 server in list, please help me.

Power Edge T320 Tower Server

Power Edge T420 Tower Server

New server, new SSD's.  I put two Seagate Enterprise PRO 600 240GB SSD's in, create a VD RAID 1.

Every time the server boots, the process gets past the PERC BIOS which shows the logical volume is present, and then the the next screen checks interface inventory and then the LCD panel turns amber and says drive 0 and 1 have a problem.  The caddys for both drives have the amber LED blinking quickly, but the drives seem to function fine. 

If I reboot, the LCD turns blue (normal), errors are cleared, until the Interface Inventory screen comes up and the process repeats.

I had read elsewhere the Seagate PRO 600's were compatible with the R620 and the H710p (monolithic).

Everything is updated (H710p driver and firmware, BIOS).  Not sure if there is a bmc-equivalent firmware that needs to be updated?  Is that the Lifecycle Controller that needs updating?

I did install and run Server Administrator and it shows the drives marked with a yellow exclamation mark and says non-critical.  Dig deeper and something about "sense" on each physical drive.

I'm just worried that these SSD's would have problems even though they appear to be working correctly.

Ideas?

My Dell PERC H710P (with latest FW A04) was working completely fine with driver 5.2.220.64 on Windows 8, until recently I tried out installing Windows 8.1 RTM on the machine, it caused FW hang when launching the Windows Setup:

I believe Windows 8.1 was shipped with driver version 6.801.5.0 downloadable from Dell, which I have also tried and incurred the same FW hang issue.

I am scared - does anyone know what is happening??

Cheers

Chris

Simple question:

What will happen to my array when a single SSD drive fails, which was used as a CacheCade virtual disk?

Will everything just keep running with reduced read-performance since everything will just go to the main array?

Or will the entire array fail causing the server to stop? I sure hope not by I can't really find any info on what happens when CacheCade drives fail.

I'm looking at using this in a new R720xd with the H710p, 12 3.5" SATA drives in R10 and a single SSD in the FlexBay.

Next question: Can I even order just a single drive in the Flex bay? The configurator seems to insist on two identical drives in the flex bay...

We are spec'ing a Dell R620.  It can be configured for 10 internal 2.5" drives, but the "Help Me Choose" on the controllers implies that the H710 connectors have a maximum of 2x4 = 8 drives.

Are there connectors for the H710 that allow a single card to control (RAID) all 10 drives?

Thanks.

Hello everyone,

I walked into today to find the following issue on my PE 2950:

Poweredge Expandable RAID Controller

Adapter at Baseport FC48h is not responding

No Adapter.

Amber light on HDD Bay 0

Can anyone help me resolve this issue, it also had a bad battery as well.

Please help!

-hiphoptech

I have Power Edge R710 with PERC6i SAS controller.(Firmware Version 6.3.3.0002).

 I had bought  5 SEAGATE278.88GBES66 HDD for it.

I had made 1 RAID1 Virtual Drive  with 2 Physical Drives and Write Policy=Write Through and Read Policy=No Read Ahead and Disk Cache Policy=Disabled

I installed Rad Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and Dell OpenManage Server AdministratorVersion 7.0.0.1

I set "Abort Check Consistency on Error" to "Enabled".

I have been testing my Virtual Drive for a week performing Check Consistency test  from OMSA on it. (Operating System and programs was running at the test time).

In rarely cases (1 from 10-15) I had Event 2342 "The Check Consistency Found inconsistent parity data..." an Event 2067 "Virtual Disk Check Consistency cancelled" in my messages file.

Consistency check performed next show no errors and completed with event 2085 "Virtual Disk Check Consistency completed"

I deleted my Virtual Drive and made new one from new HDD . And I got the same 2342 Event.

Can anyone explain - is this INPUT/OUTPUT processing On RAID1 where data on physical drives  writes one afer another  or 

may be this is firmware bug or something else.