Re: PERC 5/i and SAS 5/iR - what is maximum disk (SATA) capacity supported by...
I just purchased a Dell 2950 w/ 6 73g SAS drives in it. I replaced all six with 2TB SATA drives and it detects the drivers but the drives all fail when I try to initialize the drives. Also when i...
View ArticleIs this safe to enable, Predictive Failure and Revertible Hotspare?
Hello is it safe to turn these to ENABLED: Abort Check Consistency on Error auto replace member on predictive failureallow revertible hot spare and replace member Is there a pro or con, I read the DOC,...
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PERC H710 mini configure write-back
Hi, IHAC who is using R720 with H710 mini, during the configuration for the write-back, they encounter the following message: Suppose H710 mini come with NV cache and battery, and their battery is in...
View Article2960 III PERC6/i battery not beginning its learn cycle
I've got a 2960 with a PERC6/i with a battery that's either being recalcitrant or it's broken:(OMSA 7.1.0)# omreport storage batteryList of Batteries in the SystemController PERC 6/i Integrated (Slot...
View ArticlePower Edge 2650 with SATA/SAS drives and WinXP
We have two PE-2650's with the SCSI-SCA drives. They currently have Red Hat Enterprise installed. These two boxes have been retired from active use and I would like to re-purpose them. Problem one is...
View ArticlePoweredge 1950 6/ir intergrated sas driver for windows 2008 64 bit
I am trying to install server 2008 R2 on my Dell Poweredge 1950, but every method I try comes up with errors. If I use Ctrl-C on start up to create the raid, windows fails to format the partition I...
View ArticleExpanding Storage on R720
Hi We have recently bought a R720 and currently have two 300GB SAS drives (for ESXi 5 install - configured as a mirror) and two 2TB SAS drives (for data - also configured as mirror). We would like to...
View ArticleRaid 1
I have a Drive on a Raid 1 about to fail and need to replace it. Having not done this in a Long time cannot remember the proper way. I have a PERC 5i Controller. Any guidance would be greatly...
View ArticleExpand raid5
I am running low on disk space on my T410 with Perc6/i controler loadet with 5 160Gb sata diske in raid5, is it posabil to replace all the disk with a 500Gb disk, of course on disk at the time waiting...
View ArticleInstalled SSD not detected in R210 II
I installed a Vertex 2 SATA II 3.5" SSD in a PowerEdge R210 II, and the SSD is not being detected. I switch the HDD with the SSD and it was detected in the BIOS, though no OS to boot from. How can I...
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SAS 6/iR Integrated Controller on Dell 1950 Heavy Data Load Physical Disk 1...
2065 Fri Sep 7 08:44:03 2012 Storage Service Physical disk Rebuild started: Physical Disk 0:0:1 Controller 0, Connector 0 2052 Fri Sep 7 08:44:02 2012 Storage Service Physical device inserted:...
View ArticleSAS Perc 6/i in PE6950 Firmware Issue
I have added the Perc 6/i in my PE6950, and there seems to be no listing for updating the firmware on this configuration. I can't even locate a firmware update, even though the OpenManage seems to know...
View Articlepoweredge 515 disk drive failure
Hai, What is the error "E1810 Hard drive 0 fault- Review and clear SEL"
View ArticlePE2950 bad sas drive
PE2950 with PERC6, Lost a 1TB SAS 72k drive. Replacements are horribly priced, found Seagate Barracuda 7200 2 TB 7200RPM SATA NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive STBD2000101 Would...
View ArticlePoweredge 2900 E171F PCIE Fatal Err B0 D5 F0 then MPT BIOS Fault 13h...
Hello, One of our users have a PowerEdge 2900 server that first was giving an Poweredge 2900 E171F PCIE Fatal Err B0 D5 F0 error, then after asking the user to remove and reseat the card as per the...
View ArticleMixing SATA & SAS Drives in a R910
Hi We got Dell PowerEdge R910 server which has 2 SAS hard drive. Now we want to put more hard drives. So is it possible to put SATA disk where SAS disk is already there. Can we mix SAS and SATA hard...
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PowerEdge 2900 E1810 HDD 0,1 & 2 Fault
Hello, i'm experiencing a serious issue with my power Edge server 2900, where the RAID Controller can't find any configuration and it's giving this error on it's front panel, E1810 HDD 0 Fault and the...
View ArticleDell PE2950 III 2.5in SAS drive Limit with Perc6/i
Hi Everyone I have recently bought a dell 2950 III with a perc6/i raid controller, eight 2.5" bay version. I have read in so many places the highest drive size I can use is 146GB 10K SAS however this...
View Articlecan´t delete foreign (online) disk
System: Power Egde R420, Perc H710, 4x 1TB Sata disk, There was a raid 5 with 4 disk. 1 disk is displayed as foreign (online). In the disk utility, i cleared the foreign configuration. the mentioned...
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