Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
Hi Guys I am running RAID 10. Here is the dmesg output: $ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it controller problem or disk? SCSI normally reports 3 things when it encounters an error (particularly disk errors): Sense Key (SK), Additional Sense Code (ASC), and

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide support for FreeBSD based systems [?] Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver. He should be

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Long
The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of 0x35/0x05. Looking this up in the ASC table found at t10.org gives the following: 35h/05h ENCLOSURE SERVICES CHECKSUM ERROR What this basically means is that the disk enclosure that you're using has some sort of an unknown

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it controller problem or disk? Regards VJ On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:49 AM, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I am running RAID 10. Here is the dmesg output: $ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
Thanks guys... I have forwarded the comments from Scott to the Dell and hope for the best Thank you again. VJ On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of 0x35/0x05. Looking this up in the

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide support for FreeBSD based systems [?] Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: If

Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay
Hello Jeremy, Thanks for the feedback... here is the configuration of server: *2 x PE2950 III Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0GHz,2x6MB,1333FSB *Riser with PCI Express Support (2x PCIe x8 slots; 1x PCIe x4 slot) PE2950 English rack power cord PE2950 Bezel Assembly *16GB (8x2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:01 +0100, VeeJay wrote: There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on one server. Screw Dell's diagnostics tools. Those are there to help psychology majors who got their MCSE and RHCE after they realized that all you can do with a psychology degree is

Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay
Hello Guys I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting tool called DSET. (

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello I have used the PERC on dells 2900 2950 they are trick pieces of hardware and can easyly wipe out the contents of your disk drive on the CTRL-R screen (setup screen). the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use the

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 11:35:33 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:44AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hello Guys I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on one

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 19:39 +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hi Brian Thanks. I sent the attachment but FreeBSD List would not allow me to First order of business is to _not_ send it as a BMP. Use PNG instead, and post the URL and not the actual file:

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:44AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hello Guys I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting tool

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread TJ Varghese
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello snip the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel is, in this manner,

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:43:46PM +0800, TJ Varghese wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello snip the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use the