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Subject: RE: Dell 2600 drive issue
what, you mean it requires 'magic firmware' ???sorry, couldn't
help poke fun at last week's thread.
Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security
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From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbar
9 11:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dell 2600 drive issue
Seen this before.
Do you have the Dell Open Management tools installed? If so it will report
what firware the drives are. Likely you will find that you have mismatching
firmware and that will cause the drive to fail.
Cheers
I had a bad set of firmware back in the day with a 2600 (or it might
have been on the 220s enclosure attached to it... don't remember
which)... it would drop a good drive out of the array instead of the
failed drive and attempt to rebuild with the bad drive. Thank god for
backups.
Jim Slattery
S
LESSON TO ALL...
Next time, try to call Dell Server Support first. Despite the age of my
2650 experiencing a drive failure, they still worked through the problem
with me (which included finding links to the diagnostic tools which were
no longer generally available), told me specific firmware a
I'll check the drive firmware - this is possible. Likewise the backplane.
Thanks for the recs.
Tom
>>> Miller Bonnie L. 12/7/2009 11:09 AM >>>
Is all of the firmware/drivers up-to-date? Affecting that subsystem, there is
probably RAID FW, RAID driver, and SCSI HD firmware (run from a bo
Is all of the firmware/drivers up-to-date? Affecting that subsystem, there is
probably RAID FW, RAID driver, and SCSI HD firmware (run from a bootable CD).
There might also be backplane firmware and drivers.
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:25 AM
To
Seen this before.
Do you have the Dell Open Management tools installed? If so it will report
what firware the drives are. Likely you will find that you have mismatching
firmware and that will cause the drive to fail.
Cheers.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tom Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I ha
Faulty backplane. Had it happen a couple of times on 2650 and the older
4400/4300. Nothing to do but replace or migrate if you don't have a
contract.
-Anders
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an older Dell 2600 server with a PERC 4/Di. There are six drives
2600 drive issue
Did all that except rebuild
>>> "Glen Johnson" 12/7/2009 10:30 AM >>>
Since it is a raid 5, you really don’t want to run it with one failed drive
since one more failed drive and you lose everything.
I’d try shutting down the server, reseat the c
Did all that except rebuild
>>> "Glen Johnson" 12/7/2009 10:30 AM >>>
Since it is a raid 5, you really don’t want to run it with one failed
drive since one more failed drive and you lose everything.
I’d try shutting down the server, reseat the controller and all the
cables that connect the contr
Since it is a raid 5, you really don't want to run it with one failed
drive since one more failed drive and you lose everything.
I'd try shutting down the server, reseat the controller and all the
cables that connect the controller to the drive backplane.
I'd also blow the dust out of the sockets
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