Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-16 Thread William Warren
On 2/16/2010 4:35 AM, Tino Schwarze wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote: > > >> I mailed my sales rep yesterday explaining my concerns and got a reply >> today that he'll ask the marketing department for an official statement. >> > I got an

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-16 Thread Jefferson Ogata
On 2010-02-16 17:46, Blake Hudson wrote: > Attached was a pdf explaining the stringent quality > control standards for Dell's HDDs. No apology, remorse, alternative > solutions, etc. That's pretty funny considering the fairly high failure rate of Dell drives. If you actually check the SMART stati

Re: Vendor ID?

2010-02-16 Thread Brandon Ooi
> On my T300 with a PERC6 : > > Controller PERC 6/i Adapter (Slot 3) > ID: 0:0:0 > Status: Ok > Name : Physical Disk 0:0:0 > [..] > Vendor ID : SEAGATE > Product ID: ST31000640SS > > Stephan Non-Dell

Re: PE2950

2010-02-16 Thread James Bensley
Todd LaPittus wrote: > Sounds like you have a bunch of drives hanging off the controller that > aren't part of a volume... > Indeed, it sounds like you haven't entered the Perc controller BIOS to setup your hardware raid first (so your running JBOD in effect). Assuming you want a hardware raid y

removing drives from PE2850 w/ PERC 4e/Di

2010-02-16 Thread Shannon Gray
I'm looking at permanently removing a drive from a PE2850 system with PERC 4e/Di card. I've read through the docs and searched through the PERC bios but it looks like I can't permanently remove a drive without completely clearing the entire configuration and starting from scratch. If I simply

Re: PE2950

2010-02-16 Thread Todd LaPittus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go into the PERC controllers BIOS and setup your arrays and then initialize them. Sounds like you have a bunch of drives hanging off the controller that aren't part of a volume... //Todd madunix wrote: > i am trying to build a server, it is a dell 2

PE2950

2010-02-16 Thread madunix
i am trying to build a server, it is a dell 2950 with a RAID-5 controller, when i boot from the open manage CD i get this message: "unable to determine the boot device. Drives may not be initialized. initialize using the BIOS utility, or check if the disks are connected properly" what could be th

RE: Vendor ID?

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Stephan van Hienen wrote: > Controller PERC 6/i Adapter (Slot 3) > ID: 0:0:0 > Status: Ok > Name : Physical Disk 0:0:0 > [..] > Vendor ID : SEAGATE > Product ID: ST31000640SS How

Re: [OT] php_warn

2010-02-16 Thread madunix
solved by setting error reporting to 0 in “configuration.php” file $mosConfig_error_reporting = '0; ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.

RE: Vendor ID?

2010-02-16 Thread Stephan van Hienen
> -Original Message- > From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com > [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Steve > Thompson > Sent: dinsdag 16 februari 2010 20:11 > To: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Subject: Vendor ID? > > I've just noticed that on all my PE2900 systems with Perc

Vendor ID?

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Thompson
I've just noticed that on all my PE2900 systems with Perc 5 or 6 controllers, an "omreport storage pdisk" always shows a Vendor ID of DELL, whether they are Dell-supplied disks or not. Is this always true? -s ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-Po

Re: raid-5 to raid-10 conversion for PERC-6i?

2010-02-16 Thread Alexander Dupuy
I wrote: >> The only approach that I can see might be to remove a drive from the >> RAID-5 (making it into a RAID-0), Stroller replied: > Removing a drive from a RAID5 does not make it a RAID0 - it makes it a > degraded RAID5, BTW. It depends on how you do the removal. Using the MegaCli comman

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-16 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers From: Jeff To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:24:38 PM > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Bond Masuda wrote: > >> however, bottom line is this: Dell is trying to

DRAC 4/p not accessible

2010-02-16 Thread Antonios Galanopoulos
Greetings, I hope this is the right place for such post. We just bought a second hard DRAC 4/P card for a dell poweredge 860 server running Debian lenny. The DRAC config appears during POST and I can set the IP address there with no problem, the vga also works through the card. However pluggin

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-16 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Tino Schwarze wrote: > Hi there, > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote: > >> I mailed my sales rep yesterday explaining my concerns and got a reply >> today that he'll ask the marketing department for an official statement. > > I got an

RE: Reverse DNS lookup & syslog (Debian 4.0)

2010-02-16 Thread Brian O'Mahony
Not my call. Network engineers won't even entertain the idea. -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Jefferson Ogata Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:52 AM To: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com Subject: Re: Revers

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-16 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote: > I mailed my sales rep yesterday explaining my concerns and got a reply > today that he'll ask the marketing department for an official statement. I got an answer today (German, English translation below): > [...] Ich kan

L3 cache query resolved

2010-02-16 Thread Simon Waters
The 8MiB Disabled L3 cache reported on our SC1425 was due to a bug in the version of lshw shipped with Debian Lenny (B 2.13). It is fixed in later versions of lshw (B 2.14). I tested with the svn version on the lshw project website. The output of the "dmidecode" utility correctly listed the CP