W2012: IO operation was retried
HelloI have a DELL PE 2950 III and I read some errors in the Windows 2012 event logs:The IO operation at logical block address 6bac027 for Disk 2 was retried.The IO operation at logical block address...
View ArticleAdd disk on a raid5 PE 2900, Perc6
Hi I want to add 3 disks on a RAID5 (with 4 disk)I see the 3 news disk on the PERC6i Bios, the disk is "ready", but i don't know how to add this disk to the VD0 that is already exist. Can you explain...
View ArticlePoweredge 2900 Hard drive issue
Okay, so I am doing some work for a small business. They have 2 500 gig HD's in mirror mode, no hot swappable spares. The HD's are partitioned into two different drives, a C and D drive. Now the C...
View ArticleSAS 5/ir - RAID 1 - different dirves
Hello, I have a PowerEdge SC1435 with an SAS 5/ir card. The drive in slot 0/0 failed and we were unable to purchase a similar sized hard drive. There seems to be a bit of confusion on my part as to...
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H700 omsa raid 5 problem
Hi,This is my first post so take it easy on me. I have a raid problem on my R710. Last week i got a predictive failure on one of my disks. I received a new identical disk from Dell an replaced it. The...
View ArticleNeed to Make WinPE boot disk that can SEE R620 Drives (running off H710 PERC...
Hello All,In the past I would make a re-deployable image of the R710 servers by loading the OS, installing all the updates, then depersonalizing (sysprep, set to oobe) and making a ghost image.I just...
View ArticleFirmware upgrade help needed - (Hard Drive)
I have a server running Windows 2012. It has 12 3TB Sata II drives running in RAID 6. I am trying to update them to the latest frimware, but running into some issues.Last week I had 2 drives that had...
View ArticleSAS HDD temperature
Hello!I have a Poweredge T100 which had two SATA HDD. I recently installed one SAS 6/iR controller with two SCSI HDD. They are not configured in RAID for the moment.I also installed the HDD fan as...
View ArticlePower edge 1800 beeping
problem in dell power edge 1800 continue beep with SCSI card and booting very well but keep beep working ,without SCSI card not beep working
View ArticleDell PowerEdge T710 drive upgrades
Hi,I'm looking for some help for a friend of mine. They have a Dell PowerEdge T710 server with 3x 146gb sas drives in a raid 5 configuration.They have bought 4 new 600gb sas drives to replace these. 3x...
View ArticleRemove Raid 1 from Dell PowerEdge 700
I have a Dell PE 700 server with 2 SATA 140GB drives in RAID-1 configuration. I want to remove the RAID so that I can have a single BASIC volume of 280GB. This is a home test server. I don't need...
View ArticlePerc H710 (PowerEdge R820) firmware upgrade
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...
View ArticleExtra SATA controller for PET410
(I have to preface this with I didn't build it this way- just inherited) I need to add more than 4 drives to my T410. My current config is SATA Drives 0 and 1 in Raid 1 partitioned as c and d. Drive...
View ArticleReinstall of Server 2008 X86 (32) on Poweredge T110 II
Please bear with me, I'm a bit of a newbie!I've come into a project half way through, I've been supplied with a Poweredge T110 II which has Server 2008 RC2 64, although the software I need to install...
View ArticleRE: OMSA 7.1 reports disks as non-critical, but there is nothing wrong with...
HiWe are using a poweredge r410 with the latest perc 700 firmware. The disks still appear to be faulty when you log into omsa web interface, when they are in fact online, spun up and working 100% in...
View ArticleDell R515 PERC H700 Integrated RAID very low performance
Hello,We have Dell R515 server with PERC H700 Integrated controller with 512MB cache. This controller has 2 connectors. Only first connector is used at the moment.There are 10 hard drives connected to...
View ArticleIT assistant latest version
Hi, can you please send me a link to download the latest version? Thanks, Jessie
View ArticleConstant "click" sound from HDD
I recently received a new poweredge T420 ( 2 days ago ). I installed RHEL 6.3 and everything seems to be running smoothly. Nevertheless, I keep hearing a click sound even when the server is idle. I...
View ArticleBring in a foreign SATA drive into a Perc 5i system without losing its data?
Hi All,I've set up a Dell Poweredge 2950 as a basic Windows 2003 stand-alone server. I have no problem installing new SATA drives in the Perc 5i RAID subsystem,but I would like to bring in a...
View ArticlePower Edge 1800 RAID 5 (Win2003Srv) needs bigger C: partition, is a software...
Is there any software that can re-partition the C: and D: partitions on a Windows 2003 Server machine with a RAID 5 config using 3 x 160 GB discs?All the products I can find either do not support...
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