Unable to create more than one VD using Perc 6/i
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with what appears to be a unique problem - that is, I've not seen anything like this on Google.I've got a brand new T410 with a Perc 6/i adaptor and 3x2TB WD SATA...
View Articlepower edge 2900 PXE-E61 media test failure
Hola, que talTengo un problema con mi servidor poweredge 2900Al reiniciar la maquina ya no quiso arrancar, me aparece una pantalla negra que dice PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable.y PXE-MOF :...
View ArticleH700 and Crucial M550
Hi,I have a R910 with a H700 and some new Crucial M550 SSDs.The controller recognizes the drives as physical disks but marks them as "foreign" in physical disk management. They don't show up under...
View ArticleDell Power Edge R410 & Dell F2WGY Perc H700 Modular
Hi GuysNeed some advice please, A few weeks ago we purchased a Dell R410. This came with a Perc 6/ir Modular. However when we came to installing disks we noticed that the controller would not recognise...
View ArticleUnexpected sense. SCSI sense data: Sense key: B
Hi,I am receiving tons of alerts for 2 drives on a PowerEdge server like these:Unexpected sense. SCSI sense data: Sense key: B Sense code: 4B Sense qualifier: 4, Controller 0, Connector 0, Physical...
View ArticlePoweredge 1435SC and PERC 6/i
Hey all!I just picked up a PERC 6/i SAS card for real cheap and was wondering if it would work in a 1435SC. If not I can turn around a sell it, but I am just curious.
View ArticlePE 1759 TO PERC OR NOT
Recently came up on a few pe1750s.I noticed they do not have the black card near PCI expansion (optional perc card?)They also do not have the raid batteries to match.Is there ROMB that will allow me to...
View ArticlePE R410 / PERC 6/I VDs not visible to OS install
Its weeks like this why I hate going on vacation. I have a Dell R410 Server, latest BIOS (1.12.0) w/ PERC 6/I RAID-5 adapter (package 6.3.3.0002 w/ firmware 1.22.52). This server was configured w/ two...
View ArticlePowerEdge R510 with PERC H700 can't use 3TB SAS
I purchased a PowerEdge R510 preinstalled with 3TB SAS drives this week. The default PERC card was an H700.Primary Objective: I wish to take full advantage of the 3TB RAID limit in a RAID 5...
View ArticleProblem installing MS Windows server 2012 R2 - Dell VRTX
I'm having trouble installing Windows Server 2012 R2 on a Dell VRTX with two M620 nodes.RAID Controller H710P and a shared SPERC8 controller.RAID 1 is configured and a virtual disk is made.When...
View Article3 Identical R710's PERC H700 but one has VERY slow Disk IO
I am baffeled as I am setting up a new 3 Node cluster with three totally identical R710's6 Core Dual Xeon(2) 300GB 10K SAS in a RAID 1 for the OS (C DRIVE)(6) 900GB 10K SAS in RAID 0 storage (D...
View ArticlePERC 5/i import foreign config failed
Have PowerEdge 2950, PERC 5/i 5.1.1-0040T0: LSI Logic MegaRAID firmware loadedT0: Firmware version 1.03.10-0216 built on Feb 26 2007 at 14:45:28T0: Board is type 1028/0015/1028/1f03VD 0 - RAID 0 as...
View ArticlePE R310 with Perc H700 Part Numbers?
I'm looking to replace a faulty H700 that was original equipment on my R310. However, I have found that there are 6 different part numbers for the Perc H700 as follows:W56W0, XXFVX, CNXVW, K883J,...
View ArticleHow to configure new hard drive in power edge 2950
My server is down. I don't know what happen on it. The things that I know is one of my main hard drive in server is spoil. I bought a new one. Same brand, capacity and performance. Does anyone know...
View Articleperc h700 / dell r910 - Replaced all drives but all are marked as foreign
Hello,I have a Dell R910 with a perc h700 controller. I am rebuilding this server with 12 new SSDs.Data loss is not a problem and old configs can be thrown out.I removed the old VDs and physically...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1950 SAS 5/i Maximum Hard Drive Capacity?
Hi Guys,I am planning on doing an upgrade on one of our PowerEdge 1950's which has the SAS 5/i controller.Currently it as 1 x 80GB SATA II Drive and 1 x 250GB SATA II Drive.The upgrade I am wishing to...
View Article3TB disks for DELL PoweEdge R510 with PERC H700 Controller
Good afternoon.Currently we have 8 x 1Tera disks in our PorwerEdge R510.- 1 RAID 1 for the 2 first disks, wich have the OS(Windows Server 2008)-1 RAID 5 for the other 6 disksWe are trying to upgrade...
View Articleexpanding raid 60 array
I have an r720xd with a PERC H710 mini setup in a raid60 (3 spans with 4 HDD in each).I purchased 5 more HDDs to increase the size of the array (and have hot spares), and have 3 currently used as hot...
View ArticleDell 2950 Perc 6 /I Raid Adapter Device Driver
Good Morning Community, I am trying to find the Dell 2950 Perc 6 /i Raid Adapter Device Driver for Windows 2008 R2 Standard OS. Thanks in advance for your help. Modem489
View ArticlePoweredge 2900 showing Predicted Failure after replacing drive
Hello,I have posted this same message under the Disk Drives forum, then I realized there is a specific forum for Server HDDs so I am copying it here.We have a Poweredge 2900 with 2x500Gb HDs on RAID-1....
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