Hi Craig, Three disks in an unusual number for a server... Usually you will find 2 disks - a mirror, 4 disks - 2 mirrors, or 5 disks - 1 mirror (usually O/S) and a raid 5 (data). Can't say I've seen a server with 3 disks.
Maybe you already have, but I would be opening it up and looking for another drive that may not be showing up. In any case, I don't think that is the biggest problem, the drives themselves are not dependant on the PERC controller to 'spin up'. They should do this even if they only have power connected. I think you have drive / power problems, not a PERC controller problem. I think what you are seeing is the symptom as that is as far as the start up can go without disks, I would bet that if you left it long enough, it would eventually report something to the effect of no disks present. Ron -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: clug-talk Digest, Vol 66, Issue 25 Send clug-talk mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of clug-talk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Need drivers (Mark Carlson) 2. Re: Need drivers (Joseph Shuttleworth) 3. Poweredge Disk Problem (Craig McLean) 4. Re: Need drivers (Mark Carlson) 5. Meeting - Wednesday June 2nd ([email protected]) 6. Re: Need drivers (Gustin Johnson) 7. Re: Need drivers (Gustin Johnson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 16:58:52 -0600 From: Mark Carlson <[email protected]> To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Interesting. Do you know which cards eth0 and eth3 belong to? It may be in your boot log, or the output of 'dmesg'. Also, do you know if your network cards work in this configuration when you are using another OS? It may be a BIOS configuration problem (IRQ related perhaps.) Just a thought. -Mark C. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Joseph Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Carlson <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 9:21 am > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers > To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > >> Did you try 'ifconfig -a' to show all interfaces (including ones >> without IP addresses?) >> >> -Mark C. > > > Debian:~# ifconfig -a > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:c6:fb:8f:16 > > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) > > Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe800 > > > > eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:a1:b0:10:7f:f1 > > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) > > Interrupt:16 Base address:0xec00 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > > > > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > > RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:2636 (2.5 KiB) TX bytes:2636 (2.5 KiB) > > > > I enabled eth0: > > ifconfig eth0 up > > changed /etc/network/interfaces: > > I can't get a connection on this either. > > ---------------------- > > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > > # The loopback network interface > > auto lo > > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > hostname Debian > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 18:01:16 -0600 From: Joseph Shuttleworth <[email protected]> To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Carlson <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:59 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > Interesting. Do you know which cards eth0 and eth3 belong > to? It may > be in your boot log, or the output of 'dmesg'. I'm not sure. I checked the log and dmesg, but I looks confusing. Linux changes the order of eth at times. When I use ethtool eth3 was the only one I could get info on and I have the modem connected to the Macronix card if that helps. > Also, do you know if your network cards work in this configuration > when you are using another OS? I have XP on another partition and it works with the Macronix card. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://clug.ca/pipermail/clug-talk_clug.ca/attachments/20100530/b19467be/at tachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:34 -0600 From: "Craig McLean" <[email protected]> To: "'CLUG General'" <[email protected]> Subject: [clug-talk] Poweredge Disk Problem Message-ID: <039701cb005f$9bab9ec0$d302dc...@ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello. I'm trying to setup OpenNAS on a Dell Poweredge 1800 server with 3 300GB SCSI Hot Swappable disks. I'm experiencing some unusual behaviour. When I turn the server on the disks periodically decide not to spin up. On this server it is normal for the disks to start up a few moments after power is applied, however for some reason that doesn't happen. When this happens the POST process gets stuck at initializing the Dell PERC 4 RAID card. Obviously this isn't an OpenNAS problem, however I am hoping somebody who knows more about Dell server hardware will have some hints on what is going on here. Craig. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://clug.ca/pipermail/clug-talk_clug.ca/attachments/20100530/afde5608/at tachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 22:13:32 -0600 From: Mark Carlson <[email protected]> To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 5/30/10, Joseph Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Carlson <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:59 pm > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers > To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > > > Interesting. Do you know which cards eth0 and eth3 belong > > to? It may > > be in your boot log, or the output of 'dmesg'. > I'm not sure. I checked the log and dmesg, but I looks confusing. Linux > changes the order > of eth at times. When I use ethtool eth3 was the only one I could get info > on and I have > the modem connected to the Macronix card if that helps. > > > Also, do you know if your network cards work in this configuration > > when you are using another OS? > I have XP on another partition and it works with the Macronix card. Well, my last two suggestions are: 1. Try a live-cd based distro, since they include support for as many devices as they can. This may give you some insight into which drivers are used for your cards. 2. Ask on a Debian forum, since there may be a Debian specific solution to your problem. Good luck, Mark Carlson ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 07:10:03 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [clug-talk] Meeting - Wednesday June 2nd Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hi All, Just a quick reminder that there's a meeting on Wednesday (7PM at DeVry). There's already a few topics lined up, so keep on submitting discussion points and talk ideas! Sincerely, -Dafydd ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:03:12 -0600 From: Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 10-05-30 06:01 PM, Joseph Shuttleworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Carlson <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:59 pm > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Need drivers > To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > >> Interesting. Do you know which cards eth0 and eth3 belong >> to? It may >> be in your boot log, or the output of 'dmesg'. > I'm not sure. I checked the log and dmesg, but I looks confusing. Linux > changes the order > of eth at times. When I use ethtool eth3 was the only one I could get > info on and I have > the modem connected to the Macronix card if that helps. Most modern distros have a mapping of MAC address to device name. Usually something like /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Since two interfaces are shown it may be that only one interface is configured for dhcp and it is not the one connected to the modem. Try What distro are you using? > >> Also, do you know if your network cards work in this configuration >> when you are using another OS? > I have XP on another partition and it works with the Macronix card. Run the following command from a terminal. Do it a second time and replace eth0 with eth3. grep eth0 /var/log/dmesg Here is what I get on my laptop. [ 1.032604] 0000:00:19.0: eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) 00:24:e8:a7:0b:18 [ 1.032606] 0000:00:19.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [ 1.032630] 0000:00:19.0: eth0: MAC: 7, PHY: 8, PBA No: 1004ff-0ff [ 17.960553] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Hth, -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Use the "ip" suite instead ("ip addr", "ip route", "ip link", etc.). examples: To show all interfaces: ip addr To set an interface as up: ip link set eth0 up To add an ip address: ip addr add 192.168.0.2/24 dev eth0 To add a route: ip route add default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 There is a lot more to these commands, google, lartc.org, and man are your friends here. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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