Is the NIC a Broadcom? Is RSS enabled?
Shamika Fehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/17/2008 12:20 PM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> To "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> cc Subject Re: Help - Disk Write Problem I used to be the person who was responsible for the systems and would have been able to give you a definitive answer on that. Since this part of the system administration is outsourced to a vendor, I'll have to check w/the tech who is working on it. I do know that the newest NIC card driver was installed. Thanks for the suggestion. ----- Original Message ---- From: Miller Bonnie L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:12:34 AM Subject: RE: Help - Disk Write Problem Do you have all the PE 2850 firmware and drivers updated to the latest revisions from Dell?s site? -Bonnie From: Shamika Fehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help - Disk Write Problem Please help! We have been having this problem for a week and a half and we have not found a resolution. Thanks. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 2850 which has three disks of its own, and 7-200GB drives assigned from a SUN SAN. It is a W2K3/SP1 server. This server is direct connected to a switch. All disks, SANS and Server disks are formated NTFS. We have created shares as required by our imaging system on the SAN volumes. The imaging system and all it's associated utilities have had no problem writing to these disks in the last two years. Last week, when attempting to create new volumes (these are just folders on the file system) it took several hours for it to time out. A folder was created, the .ini file was created inside of it, and one partial control file. Normally, the .ini file is created, 5-500MB control files are created, and one control file less that 50MB is created in under 5 mins. I was able to reproduce the problem condition three times from three different workstations one of which was on the same subnet as the server. As a test, I attempted to copy a 8.4 MB file to that server from my desktop. It took 5 minutes to copy the file. When I copied the file back to my desktop, it took less than 10secs. Another test I tried was copying the same file to a different server not connected to the SAN, but does pass through a hub before connecting to the switch. The same file copied from my desktop to the new server, was almost instantaneous. We also know that the problem exists whether writing to the servers disks or to the SAN disks. Things we've checked... 1. We configured a different switch port for the same subnet and plugged a working production server into it. It worked fine. We plugged the problem server into the new switch port and the problem still persits. 2. We have changed out the cables w/brand new out of the bag cables. 3. The server has two onboard NICS. We switched NIC cards, but the problem still persits. 4. The server was also plugged into a hub. We removed the hub and direct connected the server into the switch. 5. We verified that the speed/duplex was set to 100Mps/Full on the NIC and on the switch port. 6. The motherboard has been replaced in case the NICs were bad. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
