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failed to add device too many devices dell r720

August 8, 2014, 9:04 am
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Hello - We have R720 with PERC H710 Mini (6 drives configured with Raid 10). We also have MD1200 attached to it with SAS card. I also get this error during server boot

After

LSI SAS card initializing

Current Boot Device set to device at slot 0

failed to add device, too many devices!

Press any key to continue .......

then it shows disk on MD1200 and its details


LSI Corporation MPT2 boot ROM successfully installed!

Warning: Run-time memory allocation was exceeded

Press any key to continue .....

Warning: Run-time memory allocation was exceeded

Press any key to continue .....

Then Raid card initializes and system boots up just time

Any ideas Dell guys how should I fix this ?

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Seagate Replacement drive shows missing in r610

August 8, 2014, 9:51 am
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I have a Dell R610 with a Dell branded ST9500620SS drive that is going bad. Since the server is no longer covered by support I purchased a replacement Seagate drive that is the same model but when I add it to the server open manage shows it is still missing a drive.


The drive activity light blinks once per second green and spins up but the SAS 6/ir controller does not add it back.

How can I get this working?

Thanks!

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Help me. Raid H700 not detect HDD.

August 8, 2014, 8:41 am
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Hello every body!

My Dell C2100 used CPU X5650 and Perc Raid 700.

After power on, system say:

"Attached enclosure doesn't support in controller's direct mapping mode.

Please contact your system support.

System has halted due to supported configuration."

I replaced raid H700, then cable and upgrade FW. System not notification but after press Ctrl + R, perc raid h700 not detect any hdd.

Please help me!

Tks!

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PowerEdge 720 RAID 5 windows R2 Installation

August 8, 2014, 8:05 am
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Hi,

on  poweredge 720.After creating the RAID 5,there is no drive is shown during installation of win 2008R2 std ,Even i downloaded the driver from the dell and connected usb drive.once am browsing to the usb its saying NO SIGNED DEVICE DRIVERS WERE FOUND......

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Dell PowerEdge 2900 RAID and failed Drive

July 12, 2013, 7:00 am
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server. The primary drive array has three drives and it is RAID 5. The system came this way, and it has been humming along for quite a long time. Recently, one of the drives became degraded and the light on the drive flashes the green and amber light. The amber light, I assumed, means that there is a problem with the drive and it needs to be replaced. So, I found a replacement drive on Amazon.com and installed it (the drive is hot swappable, but I cold booted to be safe). I installed the drive, but the green and amber light is still flashing.

I did not know that I was not supposed to replace the drive this way so I am now trying to figure out what to do next. I was hoping to reassign the foreign disk so that I could use it, but my server still shows the drive as failed even though the new replacement drive is in the slot, now.

I am running PERC 5/I Integrated Bios Configuration Utility 1.04-019A

I booted the server and pressed CTRL-R. I highlighted the controller, and pressed the F2 button, which is Operations. When the Operations window opens, there are three menu items:

Create New VD
Reset Config
Foreign Config

The only thing I am allowed to do in this menu is to Reset the Config. I cannot move my cursor up or down to either of the other two menu choices.

When scroll down to the virtual disk and view it, it still shows the first two drives, and one missing.

When I press CTRL-N to view the next screen, I see one drive listed as failed.

How can I rebuild my RAID with this new drive? If I cannot do that, what is the best way to delete the RAID and start over? If I delete the RAID and start over (and if my replacement drive is indeed good), how can I make sure my server does not see it as failed so that I can begin using it?

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Dell PowerEdge 2900 RAID and failed Drive

August 9, 2014, 8:57 am
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We have Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server The primary drive array has 4 drives and it is RAID 5 configured. recently the first drive is failed. due to unexpected power shut down. when we start the server again and we assume that the light on the first drive flashes the amber light. So, I found a new drive and replaced. then we just start the server again. but server is not going to boot windows 2003. we didn't change any Raid 4 configuration. I did not know that I was not supposed to replace the drive this way so I am now trying to figure out what to do next. can any one suggest me the next, we just replace the first slot driver only. we didn't change any thing in the bios configuration. do we need to something in the raid or bois configuration. if we switch to new drive. best regards azhar.
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installing sata drive in a poweredge 400sc

August 10, 2007, 10:20 am
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Hello, First of all let me say I am not IT, just the resident engineer. I just added a SATA drive to the server here at work. It is a PowerEdge 400sc. I added the drive, turned it on in the BIOS, but it is still NOT recognized. What am I missing? I read one message that suggested resetting the NVRAM. Will that work? If so, how is it done? Is it safe, I can't afford to crash the server.

All help is appreciated.

Thanks,
kp
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Expanding Perc H700 Raid 5 - Server 2012 boot disk

August 10, 2014, 8:36 pm
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Poweredge T420 with PERC H710.  Currently 3x1TB drives in RAID 5.  Looking to add 1 additional 1TB drive into the array.  Simple enough to do in OMSA - reconfigure the VD to include the new drive.  

Possible difficulty/questions - This is the primary/boot/only disk in the system.  OS is Server 2012.  Can this operation be done "online" through OMSA while the OS is running?  And, will the OS see the new size (~3TB)?  Currently the OS sees the current VD as 2.73GB and I see conflicting information of 2TB limit on MBR volume (which this is), except possibly if it's RAID, but can't find an explanation of the except if RAID part.  

Just would rather figure this out ahead of time than after hitting the GO button....

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PowerEdge 2850 Raid Controller Problems

August 11, 2014, 4:41 am
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Hi to all,

I had like other people the message "memory/battery problems were detected".

First I try to change the memory but I got the wrong one, so in the startup, it asks me if I wanna run through SCSI because my memory is not compatible, so I said yes, because my server is critical for me.

But know I found a good memory and also a good battery, so I want to good back to raid boot configuration, but I don't know how to it.

Do I have to be in the BIOS, "integrated device = raid ?"

Does is it mean that I will lose data ? because when I put this setting, when it boots, it says that I may loss data.

Config : 6 disks (3 mirrored)

PS : I can't do a "Control-M" on the startup, it is not displayed anymore..

Please help me ! 

Regards,

Baptiste

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PowerEdge Raid 5 Missing on Server 2012 Install

August 11, 2014, 7:57 am
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Hi

I am attempting to install MS Server 2012 on a PowerEdge T320 with a Software RAID 5. However, when I go through the install process, windows server setup says there are no drives found and to install a driver? I've been going round in circles with this and can't seem to find a solution.

I'm wondering whether anyone could link me to a driver or a method of successfully installing MS Server 2012 on this machine?

Thanks

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T620 RAID setup

August 11, 2014, 6:26 pm
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I just received my server.  Is there a way of accessing the RAID controller, viewing the configuration, & changing the setup of the RAID arrays from Windows Sever 2012.  I do not see any utilities for this installed.

Can I access the RAID utility only during system startup? Do I need to hit something to access it?

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Poweredge SC1430 Raid1 Virtual Disk Setup Problem

August 12, 2014, 1:55 am
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My server has run out of space so i have backed everything up on a spare drive and have replaced the main harddrives with 2x 1Tb Seagate Barracuda drives as similar to the original ones as I could get but larger. When I now try to create a new Raid1 Virtual Disk in the 5iR Raid Storage Manager software the VD is created but not initialised and there are red dots next to the Virtual Disk and the Physical Drives. If I attach the disks without Raid1 they are recognised and function correctly. Am I missing something? Do the disks need any special formatting before they are attached to the controller?

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Seagate Replacement drive shows missing in r610

August 12, 2014, 7:42 am
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Just adding to this. I have exactly the same problem. A drive in an R610 mirror pair recently failed. We purchased an identical Seagate 73GB SAS disk, dropped it into the same slot on the server, and.... nothing. The server won't see the new disk. It spins up, and the light blinks, but the server never detects it. I've tried rebooting, and going in through the BIOS CTRL-R option, but that also doesn't see the disk.

I've actually tried two other, fully functional disks and neither is detected. RAID controller is a SAS/6iR.

Could really do with some advice here.

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Expand RAID 5 array with extra disks

August 12, 2014, 3:51 am
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Hello. I have a Dell PowerEdge R720 server. It currently has 12 900GB drives. The server is running Red Hat Linux.

  • 2 drives configured with RAID 0 or RAID 1, can't remember. Virtual Disk 0.
  • 10 drives configured with RAID 5. Virtual Disk 1.

Virtual Disk 1 only has one partition, /dev/sdb1. I want to increase the size of this disk. I want to add 3 more 900GB disks to the RAID 5 array. What are the steps to do this? I can access the iDRAC interface of the server to manage it. Here is what I've got so far:

  1. Add the physical disks to empty slots on the server.
  2. Access the iDRAC interface (or maybe the Ctrl+R utility when booting?) and add the extra 3 disks into the array. I'm not sure if I need to "delete" the array, or do I just "add" the slots to the array?
  3. "Reconfigure" the array. After this step, I think the drive will now have the extra space.
  4. In the OS, expand the partition to use the extra unallocated/free space. I know the steps for this part.

I do not want to lose any data on the RAID 5 array, and I want to avoid rebooting (I guess I could reboot if push comes to shove). My concern is with steps 2 and 3. Does "reconfiguring" the array delete the data? Also, do I need to unmount the (only) partition on the drive to add the disks to the array? Or is it done "live" or "online". Also, how much disk space will these 3 extra 900GB drives add to the array? Is there a simple calculation I can use to figure out how many disks I need to add X number of TBs, given the disks will always be 900GB?

I don't have access to the server right now, so I can't give more information on the RAID controller name and version. But just an FYI: we once replaced a failed drive by swapping it out with a new one without having to shut down the server. Maybe this bit of info can shed some light on the RAID controller.

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Replacement disk not detected

August 12, 2014, 9:32 am
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As someone decided to delete my reply to post http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/t/19595787.aspx, I thought I'd create a new post re-explaining the problem I'm having.

Server is a PowerEdge R610 with SAS6/iR controller. A disk in a RAID1 mirror recently failed, and we purchased a brand new, identical Seagate SAS disk to replace it. When inserting the disk into the same slot, the drive spins up, the light blinks but the server doesn't detect it. I've tried what I can through OMSA, and even rebooted into the CTRL-R SAS config, but it still doesn't see this disk. I've tried two other (fully functional) disks, and neither is detected by the server.

I have no spare slots free, so am at a loss as to the problem. Any advice.

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I want to add a non RAID 2.5" SSD to an R320

August 13, 2014, 2:24 pm
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I'd purchased a a caddy like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BR0L3U8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 assuming I would be able to front load this into the R320, but when I opened the front, I found that this machine didn't accommodate this type of caddy. Here is the server in question, note the empty bay on the right. I pulled out the empty tray, which is in the photo below this...

On the left is 2.5 SSD with the tray I purchased (which doesn't fit). Next to it is the empty tray from the system...

What do I need to make the 2.5" drive work in this machine? I'm doing this as free favor for a client and don't have the budget to buy an expensive solution... is there some sort of adapter that will fit in the blank?

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SAS Discovery Error - Cannot Reboot

August 13, 2014, 4:50 pm
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Hi all, I have a Dell Precision T7500 which was working fine and then with no changes in configuration failed to reboot properly. During the BIOS section of the reboot I get the following error SAS Discovery Error 0X00000002 on Adapter0, Port 1 Then Windows Server 2012 R2 begins to boot BUT before getting to the Logon Screen I get a black screen with a cursor on it. The cursor responds to the mouse but otherwise I can not elicit any response from the machine (Ctl Alt Del and Alt Tab etc do nothing). If I restart the machine and press Ctl C at the appropriate time to view more information on the SAS Discovery Error I get the following screen: LSI Corp Config Utility for Dell SAS v6.22.03.00 (2008.08.06) Adapter List Global Properties Adapter PCI PCI PCI FW Revision Status Boot Bus Dev Fnc Order SAS6IR 05 00 00 0.25.47.00-IR ERROR 0 I am stuck at the moment and really need to get this machine working again. Any help would be appreciated. Terry Clancy
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Dell r710 with Perc 6/i

August 13, 2014, 7:25 pm
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Hi all, I'm new and have an interesting question/situation.

I work at a place which has a working side and a testing side of all 100% matching server equipment.  None of the equipment touches the internet and we cannot use Dell openmanage, i know :(.  Occasionally our testing side has been "played" with so much it becomes a little different and we need to make it match the working side again.  So in order to make them the same we want to be able to pull one of the working servers RAID 1 drives pop it into the testing side and rebuild the testing sides RAID 1 hard drives.


I attempted this and it didn't go well.  so I'm looking for the best way to do this?!  Can't use imaging software either.  :( 


When I attempted this I pulled all of the testing sides hard drives and dropped in one of the RAID1s from the working side.  Then I said yes to the "import foreign drives"  Then I booted into the OS and dropped in one of the testing sides other drives thinking it would rebuild it, but it didn't.  I'm guessing thats because it was still part of the older RAID1's VDs?!  Anyways i then rebooted the testing server, cleared the old hard drives foreign config thinking the controller would THEN let me rebuild onto it, but still NO!  I'm having to "replace" the hard.  What am I doing wrong?  Is there a right way to do this?!


Thanks!!!!!!!!

-Thomas

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Raid 2 Configuration on T420

August 13, 2014, 7:58 pm
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Hi,

I have installed OS and installation done by CD.Also I have done Raid setting while installation but How to Check Raid 2 setting is done or not.

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CPLD version : 103 PCIe training error : ingerated RAID

August 13, 2014, 9:01 pm
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Hello,

i can't go to boot manager window when i press f11 button....

i want to ask how to troubleshoot this error..

anyone have the same problem?? 

thanks

Regards

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