PERC 6/i removable drives
We have a Dell 2900 with a PERC 6/i controller set up as a small storage server for backups. We would like to take one of the empty drive slots and use this for removable disks to store archives on. We...
View ArticleController degraded but disks are ok!
Hi have a R710 Server with H700 Intergrate controller , according to omreport has the RAID-10 array in a degraded state: # omreport storage controllerController PERC H700 Integrated...
View ArticleHow to replace failed Raid-5 drive on R510
I have a Dell R510 with a PERC 6/i controller and 5 x 500gb drives running Server 2008-R2. Over the weekend one of the drives failed and I need to know the correct procedure for replacement. On other...
View ArticleWhat are the options on expanding 5 disks RAID5 on a six bay PowerEdge R710...
We currently have 5x450GB drive.What would happen if we just plug in another 450GB drive without reconfiguring?Or what would happen if we plug in another 3TB driver without reconfiguring?Or what would...
View ArticlePE T110 with perc s300 and (3) 500 gb sata drives in Raid 5 with degraded...
Hi, i have a PE T110 with perc s300 and (3) 500 gb sata drives in Raid 5 with degraded disk and windows server 2008 will not boot, i get a \boot\bcd error. I hit ctrl + R and it shows disk 0 online,...
View ArticlePerc 5/E not showing in Bios
Hello, I just bought new PCIe risers and Perc 5/E to attach MD1000 to my PE1950 III, but Perc is not visible in bios. The green led is flashing on, but it can not detect the raid controller.Please...
View ArticleDell poweredge r200 raid configuration
HI all,We currently using the Dell poweredge r200 server with window server 2003.And want to configure a RAID1 2TB(SATA) X 2 on Dell poweredge r200.But in the Dos mode(RAID configuration ) , it can't...
View ArticleSuggestions for a 6 port SATA RAID card for a PowerEdge 1800?
Server currently has a CERC SATA 6-Channel RAID Controller which doesn't support drives larger than 1 TB. Anyone have a suggestion for a reliable card that supports large drives and has standard...
View ArticleDell Perc H200, Raid Volume Size....
Hello,I have 4 1TB Disks in a Raid0 which gives me "3814.69GB".Windows is unable to Boot from a GPT disk, so I get 1 Volume that is 2048GB and another that is "1766.69GB"Is it possible to create one...
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I lost my SAS LSI 1068e, how can I access the HDs
Hi all, I have a big problem, i have a old Power Edge 1800 with a SAS LSI 1068e configured in RAID 1 with two HDs.My problem is, my LSI 1068e died, It is not recognized by the server, I tried install...
View ArticlePerc 5/E 5.1.1 to 5.2.2 upgrade (DEBIAN?)
Hello,In Dell OMSA 7.1 it shows that I have outdated firmware 5.1.1 of my Perc 5/E card, I am about to upgrade it to 5.2.2 but there is a package only for Red Hat, not for Debian.Can't I upgrade the...
View Article720xd, H710P, SLC SSD's, underwhelming RAID0 performance
My main question here is this: what tools can I use to determine what is going on inside the H710P? For example, if I knew how busy its processor and cache are I could avoid some of the guesswork I'm...
View ArticleChanging to larger disks on a SAS 6/iR Internal Controller
Hi, We have a PowerEdge 200 server (2 drive bays) with a SAS 6/iR Internal Controller. The server currently has two 500GB SAS drives configured as RAID 1. We are running out of disk space on this RAID...
View Articletrying to add 2 (1 TB) drives to Poweredge R610 Perc 6/i Integrated Controller
I currently have 4 drives in my serverFirst Disk Group Slots 0 and 1 have 73 GB drives (Array 1)Slots 2 and 3 have 146 Gb drives (Array 1)I would like to add 2 more driveInto Slots 4 and 5? 1 TB...
View ArticleDell and third party SSD information
Is there is list of SSD drives that WON'T cause chassis alarms?I'm interested in using intels S3700 series drives. My last Dell branded SSD lasted two weeks before it died in cachecade service. I...
View Article"Unexpected sense. SCSI sense data: Sense key: 5 Sense code: 24 Sense...
After I replaced 1TB Dell HDD with 2TB non-Dell HDD, it keeps throwing Errors from 5 HDD out of 6 HDD. Please help to get rid of this message. ....Really appreciate your help and advice!!EE
View ArticleMD 1000 melted - recovery
My MD1000 melted (literally) out of warranty. The perc 6/e card and drives are all ok, but I can't afford to replace the MD1000 to mount them all again. It contains two raid 5 arrays, each with 5...
View ArticlePE 2800 Drive Failure. Need to Replace
My PE 2800 is stating that Virtual Disk 0 is Degraded in my RAID 1 configuration. I looked and there is an orange light for one drive. I shut the system down and reseated the drive and the orange...
View ArticlePoweredge R520 RAID Controller Upgrade Question(s).....
HelloWe have a fairly new R520 server, 4 1TB SATA drives with the PERC S110 raid controller (software). I am in the process of deploying the machine as a ESXI host and really need to upgrade the...
View ArticlePoweredge 850
HiI have a poweredge 850 with beeb continues one of hard drive fail, i replacement them but the beep continue ..How to configure to get the copy of the primary is good (raid-1)?Thanks
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