R610 Perc 6/i CentOS 7
I am trying to install CentOS 7 on a R610 with a Perc 6/i raid 5. Where can I get the drivers for it and how do I load the drivers during the installation
View ArticleMaximum Storage Capacity for PowerEdge 1950 III
Hi Guys,Just wondered what the maximum capacity of HDDs that the PowerEdge 1950 III can take. Ive currently got a 300GB 15k Cheetah drive installed in bay 0 but i want to change them out for 2TBs. Can...
View ArticlePERC H700 dropping from Eight drives to Four and keeping the other four as...
I have an R710 which we're repurposing and we ordered it with Eight 500GB 7200 SAS drives, but the new purpose (ESXi virtual host) won't need all eight drives. I'm planning to drop to four drives, (3)...
View ArticleST4000NM0033 fw updare (nautilus only?)
The readme for the nautilus fw upgrade suggests a fw is available. However I am used to doing all from within the OS. Is there no windows utility?* Firmware Version GA0A *GA0A for Seagate SATA(7.2K rpm...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 1950 III PERC 6/i Drives
Hi,Im extremely new to servers and still learning how this all works, what i want to know is.Is there a way to get SATA/SAS drives to show up in windows without rebooting the server into the PERC bios...
View ArticleUnable to use extra storage space on replacement HDD
I have a Dell Poweredge T105 with a SAS 6IR controller. It is running Windows Server 2008 R2. It has a 40Gb C: drive which has the OS on it. The D: drive is used for data storage and uses the remainder...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1900 SATA Interface
Does the Type II server have SATA II or SATA III interface? Or is it just fed through a SCSI card/port/adapter? I don't know anything about purchasing SCSI drives.
View ArticleRepair for Power Edge SC1420
I have a Poweredge SC 1420, and the hard drive was damaged when it lost power during boot up. I salvaged the hard drive and put the data on a new hard drive, however I am unable to repair it. I was...
View ArticleGhost/Clone Program to rebuild RAID 1 array on a SAS6IR Controller
Can anyone suggest a ghost/clone program I can use to rebuild a RAID 1 array on a SAS6IR controller. I also would like to increase the size of the C:/ drive. The server is a Dell PowerEdge T105 running...
View ArticleUpgrading RAID controller on PowerEdge T610
This system came with an SAS 6/iR controller and after installing Server 2012 R2 and with 32 GB of RAM it is crawling, probably because we're using software RAID 5. I'd like to upgrade the...
View ArticleVoltage error when I remove a SCSI card from 2950
I am re-purposing a PE2950. There is a "A320" SCSI card in the system that is not used.After I remove the card, The system will not boot and gives a Voltage error e1000 faultIf I put the card back in...
View ArticleHDD failure imminent
Hi there,I have a Dell R510 with a PERC H700 INTEGRATED RAID CONTROLLER in it. It has 4 X M27R0 600GB, SAS 6GBPS, 3.5-IN Disks and 2 X 300GB.Now 2 of my 600GB disks have amber warning lights on them...
View ArticleHow to upgrade a HD to revision T107
Hi,I have a Power Edge 2950 with a RAID 10 array where a disk has failed. I have obtained a replacement disk (a Seagate ST3146855SS 10k RPM SAS) but when I check OMSA it says "Unsupported" against my...
View ArticleRAID controllers for Dell Poweredge R210 II
So, we purchased an entry level PowerEdge R210 II system. I do not think it has any RAID capabilities, but am thinking that we could make use of a PCI Express H/W based card and install two 3.5 WD Red...
View ArticleVery slow transfer rate
I must have something setup wrong. I am transfering from a u320 72gb 15k drive to a u320 300gb 10k drive and windows is telling me the transfer rate is 672kb/Sec?????It is a Dell 2850 with Perc...
View ArticleVery slow transfer rate!
I must have something setup wrong. I am transfering from a u320 72gb 15k drive to a u320 300gb 10k drive and windows is telling me the transfer rate is 672kb/Sec?????It is a Dell 2850 with Perc...
View ArticleVolume size is misreporting at client
Hey I hope someone much smarter than me will have an easy fix for this.....I have a drive mounted (instead of drive letter) to a directory called 'data'. This was originally a 73gb drive used by client...
View ArticleHard Drive Non-Critical warning
Hi,i am working on a PE R510, it has 12 hard drive fully loaded and hard drive 0:0:10 was reported failed.Replaced drive 0:0:10 with a Seagate ST1000NM0023 SAS hard drive, system sees it and finished...
View ArticleRead performance PERC H710 on R720
HiI have a server R720 (64Gb RAM) with PERC H710 mini and 2x600GB SAS in RAID 1 (Rent in hetzner.de)OS: Vmware ESXi 5.5 U2 Dell EditionMy application use MS SQL sevrer.After a few days of use, I...
View ArticleDell-r610 Server with PERC 6/i controller
Hello, M using dell-r610 which is configured with PERC6/i controller, problem is i want to know when i have configured RAID-0 and remove my one of disk, server is unable to get boot, how to resolve...
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