Re: PowerEdge C1100 dead in the water...
Thanks for the reply Chris. I will do as you suggest on Tuesday 02/12/2013 as far as the Minimum to Post for this system and also check the Delta power supply voltages to be sure they are firm. I found...
View ArticleRe: SAS HDDs and one SATA PE2950
My drive is Western Digital Red 2000GB 64MB and is not showing as foreign
View ArticleRe: Dell UPS Rack/Tower 2700W and a R710 ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.1 environment
Hi Roel,Good to see that the UPS shutdown software is working well. In order for the server to automatically restart following a UPS shutdown event you just need to set the server BIOS status to...
View ArticleBattery on Controller PERC 5/i Integrated
hi,i have one question if any one can answer it i will be appreciatingwe had poweredage 2950 server and the Open Manage Server Administrator portal showing that the battery for the PERC 5/i is faild...
View ArticleRe: Dell UPS Rack/Tower 2700W and a R710 ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.1 environment
Thank you Andy, I will test your suggestion when I am back in the office on Thursday/Friday.Regards,Roel
View ArticleRe: Battery on Controller PERC 5/i Integrated
Make sure the firmware is up to date on the Perc 5/i controller. Go to this site: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/poweredge-2950 and select your OS, and then go down SAS RAID and...
View ArticleRe: SAS HDDs and one SATA PE2950
The Reds are designed for NAS boxes and for PC's, not servers. Desktop/consumer-class drives can experience a number of issues, ranging from benign to severe, on an enterprise-class RAID controller.
View ArticleRe: Battery on Controller PERC 5/i Integrated
To answer your question ... when the battery is no good, the RAID controller turns off write-caching, which can significantly improve performance (or 'decrease' when disabled), so if you value...
View ArticlePowerEdge 4600 Redundancy Status Lost
I have a PowerEdge 4600 which I had to replace a power supply on. I did a hot swap on the Power supply. The light on the power supply went green right away but the amber light on the front of the...
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 4600 Redundancy Status Lost
In OMSA, go to System, Logs tab, and Clear the log (you may consider exporting or making a note of any current/recent and relevant errors or warning first).
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 4600 Redundancy Status Lost
I found a second power supply out so I am assuming that is causing my error.ThanksDebra
View ArticleUnable to Install Windows 2003 Server on Dell Poweredge 1950 II with a Perc...
Hello,I have been trying to install Windows 2003 on a PE 1950 II with a Perc 5/I controller using raid-1.It doesn't work with booting the Server 2003 disk (no hard drive found), also tried using F6 and...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Install Windows 2003 Server on Dell Poweredge 1950 II with a...
RAID config is fine. The only step you are missing is driver related.You didn't say which driver you were using, but this is the one you should start...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Install Windows 2003 Server on Dell Poweredge 1950 II with a...
Thanks for your quick response. I downloaded the driver and setup the USB Flash with it (fortunately that seems to work for me) But it is stating that the driver is 32 bit and I am installing 64 bit...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Install Windows 2003 Server on Dell Poweredge 1950 II with a...
Sure there is ... you didn't say which you were trying to install:ftp.dell.com/.../DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A07_R211424.exe
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2400 Resurrection
Manfred ... your link is for 4.5.1, which is a minor release for only a handful of 8G systems. He needs to use the one he is likely already using - 4.5:http://ftp.dell.com/sysman/4.5_ISM_A00.ISO
View ArticlePowerEdge 2900 Power Supply Pinout
Hello Allis any body know the pin configuration of or PowerEdge 2900 Power Supply i just want to up the power supply with out server machine.power supply model A930p-00ill be very thankfull
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2950, Ubuntu Server install, Hard Disk not detected??
So do I need two Hard disks just to get it running RAID?Here is the hard drive that I got:www.amazon.com/.../ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i02It said "Use for Home servers, Desktop RAID", so I just figured it...
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