Got New M/Board & RAID Controller Now Dell PowerEdge411 Will Not Boot....
Hope someone can help me with this one.Got water damage and had to replace Dell PowerEdge M/board and RAID Controller Cards.System now will not boot as it sais the File:...
View ArticlePowerEdge R520 (install Win2003 R2 64bit)
Hello!I need to install the Windows Server 2003 R2x64 to P520-dell server and can not find a driver for PERC H710 adapter for this OS.I need to create a floppy disk with the driver to install the OS....
View ArticleH710P, non-Dell SSDs, and RAID Drive Failure Reporting
As long as a non-Dell drive is recognized by the H710P controller, and I'm able to set it up in a RAID, will RAID errors with regard to the non-Dell drives be reported? I setup a RAID10 (16 x 256GB...
View ArticleAdding a Disk to a RAID 5 Array
Hello. I have a PowerEdge R720XD with 4 disks in a hardware RAID 5 Array (#4 is a hot spare, so it is not included in the array itself). I want to add another disk to the array to increase the...
View ArticleBattery on Controller PERC H700 Integrated
Hi, I have an error on my Dell server, Battery on Perc H700 Integrated.. 3 1/2 yrs oldFailed message.We were getting a Backplane enclosure error with a failed drive on the virtual Disk. (Storage Drive...
View ArticleR720xd can't save boot order.
Config:Raid 0 single SSD disk on PERC 710 controller.Raid 5 12 HDDs on PERC 710 controller.I have installed debian on raid 0.After installation, machine reboots and then can't boot directly.I have...
View ArticleCompatible Drives for Perc 4/SC RAID1
I am about to inherit the support role for an ageing PowerEdge server running Server 2003 Standard, and equipped with a Perc 4/SC controller with two Seagate 146GB drives configured as RAID-1. One of...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2900 Constantly drops hard drives
We have a customer with a PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC5i RAID card that has a history of failed hard drives. It was originally configured with eight 250GB drives, set up in a RAID 5. One drive failed out...
View ArticleiDRAC complaining about my SSD drives
I just bought a new PE T420 with iDRAC.As soon as I put in my SSD drives they started blinking amber, and the LCD readout says "PDR1101 Fault" for both drives.Both drives are brand new, and they are...
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Non certified drives throwing Faults
Hello,We have a number of Dell blades running Perc h700 and Perc h710 cards.Most of these are running Samsung 840 pro SSD drives, and Samsung 830 SSD drives - these drives are running perfectly fine,...
View Article2950 Raid battery shows failed in OMSA but bios shows no errors on boot.
I have a 2950 that has a Perc 5i. Original issue was LED with the error: "W1228 ROMB Batt < 24hr" . Swapped battery with a new battery that I precharged on a test system. No errors on boot....
View ArticleFailed PERC 5i battery replaced now shows as missing
Hi All, I had a failed battery in our PE2950. I ordered one off of Ebay new and replaced it last week. I then went into OpenManage and ran the learn cycle. After a week I went in and now it is showing...
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 Articleupgrading prec card on R620
HiI bought a R620 with H310 .... just realised no cache, slowest piece of poooo i have :)so I want to upgrade to the H710P (I believe), which one do I order can I replace the H310 does it take up a...
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SAS 6/ir disable the disk my poweredge 2900
Hello everybody,Yesterday after make maintenance my poweredge 2900, the sas 6/ir controller is disable 3 of 6 disk. After process initializing ... only 2 disk work. I,m havy a raid 0 configure with 2...
View ArticleRAID 5 array, two drives out, down due to controller card
Hello,A client has a 2800 server ( Adaptec 39160, PERC 4e/Di) has a failed RAID 5 due to controller. I was able to match a duplicate 2800 with the same configuration disks, OS, etc. The RAID 5 array...
View ArticlePowerEdge R515 Not seeing WD SATA drives
Hello, I am having issues getting the PowerEdge R515 server to see WD Blue 1.0TB (WD10EZEX) drives. I have installed Dell PERC H700 Integrated Firmware 12.3.0-0032,A02, as this according to the patch...
View ArticlePERC 6/i RAID rebuild Help me !!!
We have the following configuration : Dell 2950, PERC 6/i, (the firmware is the lastest). Disk Group 02 Disk - 73 GB RAID 1Disk Group 14 Disk - 300 GB RAID 5 The problems is the disk 1 , 4 on the...
View ArticleNo hard drive detected or disk controller not supported, R720
Hello all, I installed Server 2008 on R720 sometime back and all was fine until last week when the server wouldn't boot into windows anymore. We decided to run VMWare ESXi on it via a bootable USB but...
View ArticleLifecycle Firmware Update of PERC H710 not listed
When I enter into the Lifecycle Controller and choose firmware update and then use ftp.dell.com I do not see the H710 listed to show me what the current BIOS and available BIOS is.If I choose to view...
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