Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] CVE-2020-5344

[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Hi, BTW, I use this type of chroot solution to deploy updates which only target other Linux OS versions (e.g. RHEL6) on servers which run Debian 10 and Ubuntu LTS. This will generally work, but some updates which rely on a specific kernel version (e.g. because they ship use "o

Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 2.92 on PowerEdge R210 II

On 13/03/2020 17:16, josh.mo...@dell.com wrote: > This is probably a miss Upgrading directly worked - thanks. It'd be good to get this fixed for the other R210 II upgrade methods.  Are you able to raise a bug for that? Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in En

[Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 2.92 on PowerEdge R210 II

Hello, I wanted to update some Dell R210 II servers from iDRAC6 firmware 2.90 to 2.92. Strangely I get: # ./ESM_Firmware_KPCCC_LN32_2.92_A00.BIN This Update Package is not compatible with your system Your system: PowerEdge R210 II System(s) supported by this package: R710, R815, T410, R715, R2

[Linux-PowerEdge] Poweredge R230 IPMI BMC bug triggers frequent error messages on RHEL 7 kernel and others

Hello, Our EL7 machines get about 5000 messages per day saying: ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc. The OpenIPMI developers say: "Some BMCs don't let you clear the receive irq bit in the global enables. This is kind of silly, but they give an error if you try to clear it

Re: [BULK] RE: R910/Linux CPU Heat Problems?

On 12/08/10 22:19, Erich Weiler wrote: > FAN 6 RPM| 35h | ok | 7.1 | 1680 RPM > Fan RPM | 36h | ok | 10.1 | 3480 RPM > Fan RPM | 37h | ok | 10.2 | 10080 RPM > Do you have the latest BMC (IPMI) firmware installed? As is alluded to later in this thread, the BMC cont

Re: Dell PowerEdge R710 server does not accept RedHat Enterprise Linux version 5.0.0

On 30/11/10 09:12, yacine Azirou wrote: > > The Dell PowerEdge R710 server does not accept RedHat Enterprise Linux > version 5.0.0 > Use a newer version of RHEL 5 e.g. v. 5.5 http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.5_Release_Notes/index.html Tim. -- South East Open

Re: PE850 Interrupt conflicts on CentOS 5 and onboard ethernet and pci-e serial

On 25/11/10 21:28, Dan Irwin wrote: > I have tried many kernel boot options, including acpi=off, pci=noirq, > acpi=noirq. > You probably don't want any of those if your aim is to end up with fewer shared IRQs... Sometimes it's impossible to unshare IRQs because the interrupt lines are physical

Re: Oracle Enterprise Linux

On 24/11/10 13:52, christian.pe...@kpn.com wrote: > Actually, AFAIK, OEL5 remains at kernel 2.6.18 even in update 5. > However, if you choose to use the new Oracle Unbreakable Kernel - a separate > channel in ULN - you will get a much newer kernel based on 2.6.32 OK, thanks for the clarificati

Re: Oracle Enterprise Linux

On 24/11/10 12:07, Tim Small wrote: > > It's not "supported" AFAIK, but since it's essentially a > rebuilt-from-source Redhat Enterprise Linux with some kernel > performance tweaks - you are unlikely to see any issues with OEL that > you won't also se

Re: Oracle Enterprise Linux

On 24/11/10 11:38, Nick Lunt wrote: > > is Oracle Enterprise Linux supported on all Dell servers, along with > open manage, firmware updates, disk array drivers etc ? > It's not "supported" AFAIK, but since it's essentially a rebuilt-from-source Redhat Enterprise Linux with some kernel performance

Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming...

On 16/11/10 15:16, Stroller wrote: > So can I ask why was the kernel patch rejected? It added additional complexity to the kernel, and addressed a problem which was better suited to user space. > Was this all done on the LKML, and can we find the discussion in the LKML > archives? > http://

Re: PERC 4e/Di errors on RHEL3 server

On 04/11/10 19:55, Eric Wood wrote: > Can I get some help on what replacement controller to buy? > > I have a PE 2800 with a RAID-5 with three seagate 36gig drives on a > PERC 4e/Di.Currently all drives are ONLINE and working. But the > server has been up since 2004 and has crashed three tim

Re: PowerEdge T710

On 02/11/10 17:37, Drew Weaver wrote: > Yes but 2 months after squeeze comes out there will likely be a new > controller that won't be supported until Debian 7. > > They really should update their drivers between releases. If you take a minute to look at: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/po

Re: Perc6/i does not want to upgrade firmware. suggestions?

On 31/10/10 13:09, Arno van der Veen wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraded all firmware manually as written earlier, but I really can't > get the perc6/i upgraded in it's firmware.. :-( > Don't use Dell's buggy, overly-complex scripts (self-extracting shell scripts, which then install RPMs - makes

Re: also OT:: Import Raid Config from Perc6/i to SAS 6i/R

I believe MegaRAID (and hence PERC 5 / 6) uses DDF - which is an open standard - but SAS6 (LSI 106x/107x SAS etc.) don't (BICBW). dmraid and recent mdadm will allow you to read/modify the raw metadata. If you are just looking to move the drives and don't mind about using the SAS6's raid feature

Re: Dell yum Repository error

On 27/10/10 13:18, Michael F Lense wrote: > > *I have tried the *Dell yum repository by running the following command: > > * * > > * wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/bootstrap.cgi > | bash* > > * * > > *Now when I run a yum update I am failing trying to get to this site* >

Re: using a PERC6/i (MegaRaid SAS 1078) in JBOD mode?

On 22/10/10 13:52, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On my PowerEdge 2900 III I have a PERC6/i (MegaRaid SAS 1078). From the > controller bios is seems I have to create a "raid0 virtual drive" for > each physical disk or in order for them to appear in Linux. > > As I intend to use none of that contr

Re: problems with "LSISAS2008 6Gb/s SAS" kernel mpt2sas driver

On 21/10/10 08:31, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Hi, > > I am setting up a new Dell T610 server with 8 WD Black Caviar sata3 1TB > disks on a LSISAS2008 controller: > > Oct 21 09:12:37 grml kernel: [ 83.377388] mpt2sas0: LSISAS2008: > FWVersion(02.1 > 5.63.00), ChipRevision(0x02), BiosVe

Re: EDAC on Dell servers

On 20/10/10 19:11, Alexander Dupuy wrote: > This is the first time I have heard of this. When you refer to "Dell > ESM" are you talking about OMSA, or the onboard firmware (ESM = embedded > system management?) of the BMC/DRAC? > At the moment everything is racey when it comes to the EDAC regis

Re: R310 BMC woes

On 15/10/10 20:53, Drew Weaver wrote: We don't want the management NIC or traffic to be visible to the operating system for security reasons. It won't be - the OS never sees traffic destined for the BMC, it goes directly from the NIC chip to the BMC, and doesn't hit the PCIe bus which is

Re: perc6i alignment?

On 14/10/10 02:27, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > One more question...is there anything to be concerned about regarding > on disk geometry or does the PERC do the right thing automatically > when using OEM drives? > Nearly all drives have 512byte sectors, so these won't be a problem. WD have been

Re: SATA Drive firmware updates

On 12/10/10 20:56, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Sorry, not really on topic but I figured people here would be knowledgeable on > the issue. I'd like to be able to update the firmware on some sata drives, > specifically some WD RE-4 GP WD2002FYPS drives under linux. Any idea if this > is possible? >

Re: 2.5" vs 3.5" drive performance?

On 08/10/10 23:23, Dave Sparks wrote: > Anyone still buying their servers with 3.5" drives? > Everyone who needs large capacity storage? If you need performance, for most applications SSDs would seem to be a better idea than 2.5" drives, no? This is based on real-world prices for the drives

Re: Collect info about few dozen servers

On 07/10/10 09:45, Ruben Laban wrote: > like to have an as complete as possible inventory of what components each of > those servers contain. I'm thinking of: > * cpu type/model/speed/etc > /proc/cpuinfo > * memory (how many sticks of a certain size) > dmidecode should give you some info

Re: ordering a T610: what options?

On 30/09/10 14:00, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > - what "Raid Connectivity" (C0 to C16) should I select? > Probably doesn't matter, you can just reconfig it when you get it. > - which "Raid Controller" is the best in plain JBOD mode? Which will >allow 'smartctl' to monitor the individual

Re: Identify disk on a SAS6iR controller

On 29/09/10 17:35, Barnaby Gray wrote: > Is there a way to show the serial numbers of disks through the lsiutil > command line utility or otherwise? > Dunno about CentOS, but on Debian 5: # modprobe sg # lsscsi -g [0:0:0:0]diskSEAGATE ST3500620SS MS04 - /dev/sg0 [0:0:1

Re: Possible disk corruption - help and advice appreciated

On 21/09/10 15:19, Faris Raouf wrote: > If no problem is found we'll then we'll move on to the disk pulling > procedure :-) Shame the R200 doesn't have hot swap drives! > I've seen random data corruption on SATA drives attached to SAS5, and SAS6 controllers in R300, and PE860 boxes - we spott

Re: Dell R300, dellomsa => tg3 hanging

Raphael Mazelier wrote: > Hello list, > The interface is still up from both the server and the switch side, but > traffic (I think incoming traffic) is dropped (rx_discard counter growing). > > My settup is classic : lenny, standard (2.6.26) or bpo (2.6.32) kernel, > dellomsa 6. > Hi, I sa

Re: Which disk controllers work best with Linux?

On 14/09/10 02:32, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Mostly this seems to be caused by the disks being connected to an awful > hardware RAID controller, but I don't think Dell offer any servers using > the same onboard Intel SATA controllers that work really well on desktop > PCs. As far as I know, the R210,

Re: 3.5in SAS flash drive for R900?

On 09/09/10 18:57, Philip Tait wrote: Will the PERC-6i do TRIM passthrough? If not, you'll need to use an AHCI controller such as the server's onboard Intel SATA controller etc. (this is what we are using). Does your kernel and filesystem support TRIM too? Is the availab

Re: 3.5in SAS flash drive for R900?

John LLOYD wrote: > Taking a quick look, Dell doesn't offer this on R900 (or other 10th-gen > servers it seems). And nothing on the upgrade page either. > > We're wanting to try out a couple of SSDs in a RAID-0 stripe (PERC-6i > controller). Does anyone have experience with 3rd party drives, or

Re: Advice for a debian server

On 06/09/10 13:57, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: > Reading this list, I sometimes see threads complaining about > compatibility issue between recent Dell servers and Debian GNU/Linux. > > What is the most stable and compatible model in order to install Debian > Stable (Lenny) ? > Anything without a

Re: >16tb filesystems on linux

On 27/08/10 09:18, Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: As I say, we're primarily a Debian shop and Solaris did used to feel like a bit of a thorn in the side but things have improved. Did you consider/try ZFS on Debian-kFreeBSD instead of OpenSolaris to try and make things less painful? http://packa

Re: Preventing I/O starvation on MD1000s triggered by a failed disk.

On 24/08/10 05:33, Bond Masuda wrote: > I run this once a month on all my RAID-5 arrays that use 500GB or larger > disks. It was also recommended to me by a Dell technician. > > However, what I actually do in practice aside, I sometimes wonder if > this is a good thing or not? If I recall correctly

Re: Dell OpenManage 6.3 for Ubuntu

On 24/08/10 08:46, Johan Sjöberg wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I tried installing libsmbios-bin, but unfortunately it > still complains about unmet dependencies when I try to install OMSA. > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >srvadmin-hapi: Depends: smbios-utils but it is not

Re: external ESATA drives in a R610

On 19/08/10 22:50, Bond Masuda wrote: > > ave you actually tested hot plugging a eSATA drive from a controller based > on a Silicon Image chip that also has a PCI-E to PCI-X bridge? Nope. > i have one > such card, which works as long as I don't hot plug. if I do hot plug, I get > a machine check

Re: Dell OpenManage 6.3 for Ubuntu

On 23/08/10 15:05, Johan Sjöberg wrote: > I then tried to install it on Debian testing (Squeeze). On that version, it > was only the libsmbios-utils package that stopped me from installing. The Ubuntu smbios-utils package has the same contents as the Debian libsmbios-bin package, AFAIK. Tim. -

Re: external ESATA drives in a R610

The Intel ICH10R (as used in the R210 R310 R410 R510) does support SATA port multipliers (in which case I'd suggest a simple header to bring the motherboard SATA out to the back-panel), but the R610 seems to use the ICH9, which doesn't. The Intel ICH are very good SATA chips, and will get you a ve

Chassis "identify" light status checking

Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to get the status of the chassis "identify" light on recent poweredges? If memory serves me correctly, this pops out in amongst the output from "ipmitool chassis status" on Intel SRxxx servers, and although I can turn the light on with "ipmitool chassis id

Re: LCD Display on R710

On 17/12/09 19:00, Alexander Dupuy wrote: > you can use [...] the Dell-modified ipmitool > (http://linux.dell.com/files/openipmi/ipmitool/ipmitool-1.8.6-13.4.DELL.13.src.rpm > or > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/ipmitool): > > > # ipmitool delloem lcd help > > lcd set {mode}|

Re: PowerEdge 2800: megaraid/scsi errors (PERC 4e/di)

On 05/08/10 08:00, Marc Petitmermet wrote: > megaraid: aborting-12854 cmd=2a > megaraid abort: [255:128], driver owner > megaraid: resetting the host... > > What do the above errors mean? Are the disks failing or is this an other > hardware issue? > > Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Safe to run smartctl on PowerEdge 2950 Dell PERC 5/E?

dellpowere...@semantico.com wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been reading about the smartctl problems people have been having. I > couldn't see my controller listed in any of the threads. OS is RHEL5.4 > smartmontools is smartmontools-5.38-2.el5 > Safe as far as I know, but if you have a test syste

Re: Intel VT-d (IOMMU) support on poweredge servers

Stewart St. Dennis wrote: > Tim: > I had to wander down this lane recently. It is a two step process: > 1. From the computer specs., determine the specific Intel chip > present in the PE1950 > 2. From the the Intel® Virtualization Technology List > , see what t

Intel VT-d (IOMMU) support on poweredge servers

Hi, I'm trying to find out which poweredges support Intel VT-d ("Directed I/O") - so that I can pass through a PCIe SCSI controller directly to a virtualised W2K3 instance using KVM? It looks to me like the PE1950 doesn't, but I can't seem to find a definitive answer... Anyone have that info?

Re: [Fwd: [Bug 616517] libvirt should not use the MAC address assigned to tap devices/vnet interfaces by the TAP/TUN driver.]

Andreas Rogge wrote: > The bridge-interface will lose network > connectivity because it changes its MAC. > Perhaps this is a bug in the Linux bridging code? Shouldn't "brctl setportprio" be used to force the MAC of the bridge to be the same MAC as the physical port - then it wouldn't change.

Re: Serial over LAN

Rahul Nabar wrote: >> ** First thing you should do in BMC setup is reset to default. The BMCs >> often ship with a weird non-default setting that will cause lots of >> serial port feedback if you try to run a getty on the serial console. >> > > Would ipmitool, or syscfg or another equivalent t

Re: performance bottleneck in Linux MD RAID-1

Bond Masuda wrote: > almost seems like Linux MD layer has a performance cap at around > 200MB/s. > > Has anyone encountered this and have suggestions to remove this > bottleneck? Any advice would be appreciated. > I think the best place to pose the question would be at linux-r...@vger.kernel.or

Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > We've seen both Hitachi and Seagate 2T drives from Dell. > Great, thanks. Any ideas what model and firmware numbers (preferably hdparm -I or otherwise cat /proc/scsi/scsi or lsscsi etc.). Cheers! Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in

Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

Blake Hudson wrote: > Tim Small wrote: > >> I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives, >> but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're using? >> >> > I recently purchased a couple Dell branded 2TB

1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

Hi, I'm planning on purchasing a couple of 11G servers (prob R210 / R310 / R410) for a client, and was wondering which 1-2TB drives Dell are shipping with these boxes? I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives, but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're u

Re: how to find which server to buy

Tapas Mishra wrote: > I want to know how to decide as which server of Dell will be able to > sustain request to a particular application. > That is what should be CPU frequency Quad Core or 2 Cpu or RAM .If it > makes sense then stress testing of a Dell Server for my application. > Assuming I know

Re: dell 2850 initrd problem.

Ron Croonenberg wrote: > So if I issue: > "e2fsck -f -b 32768 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01" > Hi, If you're running filesystem checks - I'd strongly suggest running them on a backup image, or (more easy to achieve and quicker) running them against a copy-on-write snapshot (see my post of

Re: Serial over LAN

Case van Rij wrote: > I have this configured on 45 R410s with iDRAC Express and have tried > it in the past on 50 R210s and a handful of 1950s and I have to say, > even once configured it's actually rather frustrating to use and it's > no substitute for a cyclades-like serial console server. > > I

Re: Serial over LAN

Jefferson Ogata wrote: > Hmm, my impression was that "Redirection After Boot" only affects comms > up to the point of getting a bootloader running, but I'm not 100% sure. > I believe (but again, I could be wrong), that with redirection after boot enabled, the BIOS polls the VGA character buffe

Re: Serial over LAN

Adam Nielsen wrote: > Perhaps you can answer something that's been bugging me for some time. > How does this actually work? I mean, what gets sent over the wire when > you redirect a serial port? > > It's always bugged me that there's not much information about how this > is done, and it seems

Re: how to enable BMC sensors

wayne_weil...@dell.com wrote: > > If you are using a Dell version of IPMI Tool (its available on the > Systems Management DVD), there should be an option to use Dell > extensions that will make the output a little more user friendly. I > don’t remember the exact option, but is probably something

Re: Serial over LAN

Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-05-20 16:14, Marc Moreau wrote: > >> I'm looking to setup Serial over Lan on my cluster of PowerEdge 1950's. >> Does anyone have this setup? >> > > Sure. Use it all the time. > Yes - here too - using ipmitool on Debian. I use pretty much the same setu

Re: Manually reconstructing a RAID5 array from a PERC3/Di (Adaptec)

On 12/05/10 14:59, J. Epperson wrote: > Not that I'd attempt anything like this short of a > national security issue or forensics for a particularly heinous crime > Would running a server with: . No RAID array status monitoring, and.. . No backups at all ... be sufficiently heinous? Ti

Re: Manually reconstructing a RAID5 array from a PERC3/Di (Adaptec)

On 06/05/10 08:47, Support @ Technologist.si wrote: > Hi tim, > You gave yourself a hell of a job.. > Below here are some links.. the last 2 links are linux ways to go.. > > http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10346 > http://www.diskinternals.com/raid-recovery/ > http://www.chiark.gre

SMART long-self tests hang on Seagate ST3500630NS 3BKT attached to SAS6/iR

Hi, Can anyone with some Seagate ST3500630NS drives try to request a SMART long self test with "smartctl -t long /dev/sg0" or similar? I have two of these drives attached to a SAS6/iR - they have been upgraded from firmware 3BKS a couple of months ago. Both drives just get as far as: Self-te

Re: Manually reconstructing a RAID5 array from a PERC3/Di (Adaptec)

Tim Small wrote: > Here's a diff between the hex-dump of the first 128 sectors of two of > the drives > -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1

Manually reconstructing a RAID5 array from a PERC3/Di (Adaptec)

Hi, I'm trying to reconstruct/recover data from a raid array for a friend of mine - it's a 5x 36G RAID5 array. My guess is that it suffered two successive failures, although none of the drives seem to be 100% dead (only failed to read 60k out of 70G+ so-far). I'm currently taking raw disk images

SAS5 SAS6 etc. DMA alignment (hardware/firmware bug) - can Dell investigate this one please?

Hi, With respect to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/26/335 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831 It would appear that it's unsafe to carry out ATA-passthrough operations on SAS5* and SAS6* controllers (1068 / 1068E and others). This definitely affects smartctl, and I'm assuming it ha

Re: how to get rid of bad blocks in a file on PERC 5/I?

On 01/05/10 07:16, Adam Nielsen wrote: > disks, as long as the hardware RAID controller can keep up with the disks > there would be no difference in performance. > I remember reading a benchmark which showed that under random I/O patterns, the Linux software RAID performed better on a (from m

Re: PE2950, LSI SAS -> SATA very slow

Adam Nielsen wrote: > We have a PowerEdge 2950 with an "LSISAS1068E" controller, hooked up to > two Seagate 1TB SATA disks. For some reason the performance of these > disks is quite poor - I'm lucky to get over 10MB/sec from them, when I > should be getting closer to 100MB/sec. > > Sorry -

Re: PE2950, LSI SAS -> SATA very slow

Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a PowerEdge 2950 with an "LSISAS1068E" controller, hooked up to > two Seagate 1TB SATA disks. For some reason the performance of these > disks is quite poor - I'm lucky to get over 10MB/sec from them, when I > should be getting closer to 100MB/sec. >

Re: how to get rid of bad blocks in a file on PERC 5/I?

Adam Nielsen wrote: > I believe that when hard disks discover they have a bad sector > they attempt to remap it themselves, but it may not always happen right > away. So it's possible that by the time you rebuilt the array the > sectors had been relocated. > I believe the standard behaviour

Seagate ST3250310NS firmware bug - Dell R210 poor sequential read performance

Hi, Another data point for this issue: r...@fig:~ # hdparm -I /dev/sdb | head -7 /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST3250310NS Serial Number: 9SF1ER28 Firmware Revision: MA08 r...@fig:~ # getSystemId Libsmbios:2.0.3 System ID:

Re: Hot disk change.

Fabio Catunda wrote: > > I'm really worried to know it Linux would be able to read the old disk > connected on a different SATA port. dmraid knows about the metadata formats of various hardware RAID controllers, so do recent mdadm 3.x tools, I think. Tim. ___

Re: smartmontools on powerEdge 1950

KnX wrote: > > How to use smartmontools on a server X? As has already been mentioned, there is megaraid support in smartmontools. You might need to use a more recent smartmontools version, as ISTR some bug fixes went in during the last few months. Note that for other LSI controllers use of smart

Re: debian monitoring

Tim Small wrote: > P.A wrote: > >> Hi, I have some Dell 1950/2950 servers that are running Debian >> GNU/Linux 4.0 that I want to be able to monitor the RAID controller. >> > aptitude install mpt-status > > ? > > Can't remember which cards th

Re: debian monitoring

P.A wrote: > > Hi, I have some Dell 1950/2950 servers that are running Debian > GNU/Linux 4.0 that I want to be able to monitor the RAID controller. > Have you tried: aptitude install mpt-status ? Can't remember which cards this has support for tho'... Tim. -- South East Open Source Soluti

Re: Cannot update HD firmware

Davide Ferrari wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to update (on a CentOS 5.4) the firmware for my Seagate ES, > 3.5", 7.2K, SATA, 250GB to version MA0D but I always get the message: > > This Update Package is not compatible with your system configuration > This might be of some use - I've updated a ST3

Seagate ST31000340NS firmware MA0D - Baracuda ES.2 1TB poor sequential read performance with NCQ enabled

Hi, I'm seeing poor sequential read performance (as measured using "hdparm -t") using the recommended Dell firmware version MA0D on Baracuda ES.2 1TB drives using libata with ICH Sata controllers in AHCI mode with NCQ enabled (Poweredge R210, R410 etc.). Similar performance bugs are seen duri

Dell R300 with Silicon Image 3132 PCIe SATA/eSATA card - doesn't work with BIOS v1.4.3

Just a quick BIOS bug report - I have this device working on a Dell R300 with BIOS version 1.2.0, but when I upgrade the R300 BIOS to 1.4.3, it doesn't show up in the PCI device listings. I tried with Silicon Image BIOS versions 7.4.05 and 7.7.02. 07:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, I

Re: Adding a second Quad Core L5420 CPU to a 1950 III

PJF wrote: > I've been through the dell docs and intel docs, not sure if the stepping > matters. > Out of curiosity I had another look at this. Intel's line on older processor lines were that the steppings shouldn't differ by more than 1, Intel's 5400 series datasheet says: http://www.intel.

Re: Adding a second Quad Core L5420 CPU to a 1950 III

PJF wrote: > I'm top posting on my on post... > > I added a second quad core, everything is working fine. > > I noticed the second one is Model 23 Stepping 6 > The first one Model 23 Stepping 10 > > Do these need to match? Openmanage reports everything is okay... > I believe t

Re: help configuring a db server

John G. Heim wrote: > But I'm confused about disk. I would think disk pspeed > would be fairly important. That entirely depends on your database usage pattern: What is your total dataset size? What is your working set (i.e. data which is commonly/regularly accessed)? Can you reasonably fit your

AHCI permitted on some Gen 11 servers (was Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers)

howard_sho...@dell.com wrote: > With the introduction of the PERC H700/H800 controllers, we began enabling > only the use of Dell qualified drives. > Isn't this another reason to ditch hardware RAID controller cards entirely? To be honest - whenever possible, I use Linux's built-in md RAID1

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

Philip Tait wrote: > the supplied drives, and installed 4 Barracuda ES.2s. After doing a > "Clear Configuration" in the pre-boot RAID setup utility, I can perform > no operation with the drives - they are marked as "blocked". > > Is Dell preventing the use of 3rd-party HDDs now? > > Thanks for any

ipmitool delloem half-baked patch

Alexander Dupuy wrote: > You can get power statistics from ipmitool with delloem support, e.g. > ipmitool delloem powermonitor powerconsumptionhistory. I realize this > tends to fall in the category of a vendor-proprietary tool WTF! Why isn't this merged upstream? It's not like there isn't al

R210 BIOS SoL setup not-intuitive etc.

Hello, Whilst I think of it setting up the SoL is pretty unintuitive on the R200 as well. SoL only works on serial2, but nothing in the BIOS or BMC setup tells you this, and it's not the default BIOS serial port setting when you enable redirection (even if you have previously enabled SoL in t

Re: R210 / L3426 power consumption figures - 40w idle!

John Hodrien wrote: > So to be even more demanding, how does it compare with the self > monitoring > output on your server? I'd really like to know how much I can believe > the > figures. > > # omreport chassis pwrmonitoring > Power Consumption Information Don't think I can help you there, I'm

Re: R210 / L3426 power consumption figures - 40w idle!

Moe, Justin wrote: >> I've had an R210 recently to set up for a client and thought I'd share >> the power consumption figures that I recorded with the list. >> >> Basically, very impressive results IMO, when you consider the last R200 >> (X3220) which I set up used 135-odd watts idle... >> > >

Re: R210 / L3426 power consumption figures - 40w idle!

> Interesting to see posted. Just for info, what are you using to measure the > power usage? > Sorry I'd meant to include that in the original post - nothing particularly special, the - fairly similar spec'ed, I believe - previous model of this device: http://navitron.org.uk/product_detail

Re: R210 / L3426 power consumption figures - 40w idle!

Matt Domsch wrote: > The Dell Advanced Power Control feature is enabled by default in BIOS > SETUP, which prevents the OS from managing it. If you prefer to have > the OS do it, disable this feature in BIOS. > Thanks for that information Matt - must have missed that in the BIOS (all the other

Re: memory and drive test.

Noble Athimattathil wrote: > Also was wondering if these tests can be preformed on non-dell systems. If they can't, and you want an alternative, use memtest86(+), and smartctl (e.g. smartctl -t long to get the drive to perform an exhaustive self-test - I get most of the machines which I manage to

Re: PowerEdge 1950 ECC question...

Henrik Schmiediche wrote: > My original question (turning of ECC for memory testing) was hopefully going > to narrow down the issue. > It's probably possible to disable ECC after boot time using setpci (I've used it to read and write the ECC status registers on Intel chipsets in the past), bu

R210 / L3426 power consumption figures - 40w idle!

Hi, I've had an R210 recently to set up for a client and thought I'd share the power consumption figures that I recorded with the list. Basically, very impressive results IMO, when you consider the last R200 (X3220) which I set up used 135-odd watts idle... Disks: 2x 250G Seagate ES.3 SATA RA

Debian Lenny on PE R210 - BMC5716 drivers

Hi, The Debian Lenny kernel as shipped at the moment doesn't support the on-board NICs in the R210, but will as of the 5.0.5 point release. In the meantime there are build instructions here if you'd like to stick with the Debian kernel... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565353

Re: PowerEdge 1950 ECC question...

It seems probable that the memory fault is causing the BIOS to crash before it gets a chance to enable ECC - thus no errors are logged. It could also be a bus-loading issue with the FB-DIMMs (such that no memory can be issued - maybe a faulty AMB chip on one of the sticks). Try the system with

Re: Lifecycle Controller not-so slick IMO.

patrick_b...@dell.com wrote: > By Console Redirection we mean serial port console redirection. The interface > works fine over the iDRAC virtual KVM. This was decided since the Lifecycle > Controller uses a graphical interface. > I take it from this that it's can't be automated - that really

Re: Lifecycle Controller not-so slick IMO.

Bas van der Vlies wrote: > The test was with M610 over idrac. So we use some kind of console redirection. > Having hooked up a screen and keyboard, I see that this new saner firmware update mechanism is an optional extra on the R210. Great. Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited

Lifecycle Controller not-so slick IMO.

Bas van der Vlies wrote: >> While the OpenManage team is working to make more Linux-native >> firmware update utilities available, Lifecycle Controller is really >> quite slick, and there's no concern with having the "right" Linux >> environment to run. > We have a lot of M610's and did not know

Re: support.dell.com out to lunch?

Mark Watts wrote: > Dell have a ISO image you can loop-back mount which will update all the > firmware for all of your hardware in one go, under Linux[1]. > Works a charm. > I thought that still didn't handle updates for e.g. hard drive firmware? Tim. _

Will DOS floppy firmware updates please leave the building...

Ian Forde wrote: > Heck - even at 10 servers, PXE installations should be the > norm. So to be told that one has to use a DOS floppy is a little... > well... grating... > I've had good luck in the past using memdisk from syslinux to load a floppy,CD,or "USB stick" image into RAM as part of a

Re: PXE boot R900 via 10Gb Intel NIC?

Jefferson Ogata wrote: > Maybe there's some way to do it with ethtool -E, but I don't have any > way to find out what it is. > The Intel datasheet? May not help, tho, I suppose. > Any other ideas? > Unload the linux driver, and use a recent qemu/kvm to passthrough the PCI device, and then

SAS5 / SAS6 SMART etc. ATA passthrough bug - testers wanted!

Hi, As mentioned previously, I'm seeing drive and controller resets (and or drives and controllers being marked as faulty) with SAS5 / SAS6, and other LSI mpt based SAS cards with-respect-to ATA command passthrough (as required for SMART monitoring, running SMART self-tests, SMART temperature moni

Re: massive io problems

John Hodrien wrote: >> What about block device activity (-d option)? >> > > Looks like sar isn't configured for this at the minute, I'll see if I can sort > that out I'm not sure how frequently sar collects data, but I think you'll probably want something to collect it at 1-second or less gra

Re: PowerEdge 2900 Onboard SATA API?

You should probably take a look at: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware,_driver_status ...if you haven't already. If you have an existing IDE driver then you should be able to use SATA hardware on the Intel ICH controllers in the PE 2900 with little or no modification by using the IDE

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