Re: SAS6i/R RAID Disks failing

2009-12-16 Thread William Warren
On 12/15/2009 6:08 PM, Monty wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Todd Lyonstly...@ivenue.com wrote: ... The firmware is supposed to be fixed in the latest released drives that the Tivo uses, double check that there hasn't been a really recent firmware release since you last updated

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

2010-02-05 Thread William Warren
On 2/5/2010 7:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Philip Tait wrote: Is Dell preventing the use of 3rd-party HDDs now? This better not be true. We have an R710 on its way in which non-Dell drives are to be installed. If this is true, the R710 will be going back to

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

2010-02-05 Thread William Warren
On 2/5/2010 7:35 PM, Mark Walkom wrote: This thread Brandon mentioned earlier explains it a little - http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19314432/19649799.aspx From the thread; /Yes, while on the surface I don't like the sound of it, the truth is that Dell-certified drives have a special

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

2010-02-06 Thread William Warren
On 2/6/2010 8:57 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: We haven't noticed this yet on R710s but ours have PERC6, As a customer of Dell who has hundreds of these, if we do notice this, we will be using something else in the future. It is plain too expensive, too slow, and too difficult to get drives if we

Re: Third-party Anythings not permitted in Dell's

2010-02-06 Thread William Warren
On 2/6/2010 10:40 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: I got an earful for ordering barebones machines -- Ordered the workstation equivalent of the 610/710 with same processor. But you can't buy a machine that's dual processor ready unless you buy the processor from them now. They changed to a

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

2010-02-09 Thread William Warren
On 2/9/2010 5:17 PM, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote: Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive use of Dell drives. It is common practice in enterprise storage solutions to limit drive support to only those drives which have been qualified by the vendor. In the

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

2010-02-10 Thread William Warren
On 2/10/2010 12:20 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: Quoting Mirosław Jaworskim...@ikp.pl: We anxiously wait for further lock-ins. I had a slippery slope rant in my last email, but I decided to remove it before sending... See you think a bit alike... The funny thing is, when we ran DEC

Re: help configuring a db server

2010-02-11 Thread William Warren
On 2/11/2010 12:11 PM, Paul M. Dyer wrote: Actually, Dell AMD sells a 6-way CPU. So, the CPUs can be 2-core, 4-core, 6-core, 8-core. I am not sure, but I imagine the AMD CPUs are still at better prices than Intel. Paul - Original Message - From: Eric

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

2010-02-12 Thread William Warren
On 2/12/2010 3:44 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: Hi, Anyone know if the H200 also has this problem, e.g. I think this is currently the lowest configuration on the R510? Thanks, Sabuj Pattanayek ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list

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

2010-02-12 Thread William Warren
On 2/12/2010 3:44 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: Hi, Anyone know if the H200 also has this problem, e.g. I think this is currently the lowest configuration on the R510? Thanks, Sabuj Pattanayek ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com

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 answer

Re: Adding 3rd Party RAID card halts Linux boot

2010-04-17 Thread William Warren
On 4/17/2010 2:09 PM, Nathan Milford wrote: Howdy I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950-III (BIOS: 2.6.1) with a PERC6i (FW: 6.2.0-0013, DRIVER: 00.00.04.08-RH2) that is built into a single RAID5 array happily running CentOS 5.4, and has been running happily for some time. We use it to dump

testing

2010-04-18 Thread William Warren
making sure i'm getting through. ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq

No more AMD servers?

2010-05-30 Thread William Warren
I can't find one in the tower section. AMD is gone. Any ideas anyone? ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq

Re: PERC S300 - can it be made to work?

2010-06-27 Thread William Warren
PERC s100-s300 are FAKERAID: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/Dell_Software_RAID_Functionality_White_Paper.pdf

Re: PERC S300 - can it be made to work?

2010-06-27 Thread William Warren
I would not expect this card to work reliably due to it being fakeraid. Take the replacement or get a real hardware raid card form either areca or 3ware(however lsi now own 3ware so you may have to be careful there to). On 6/26/2010 10:59 PM, Rodrigo Trevisaneli wrote: Well, I started that

Re: PowerEdge T710

2010-11-02 Thread William Warren
Debian isn't a bleeding edge distro but one built for stability. I'd wager they had the enterprise in linux long before redhat coined the enterprise linux term. Ubuntu is a good bleeding distro as is fedora..:) On 11/2/2010 1:37 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: Yes but 2 months after squeeze comes out

Re: Memory required for Dell SC1425 1U server?

2010-12-03 Thread William Warren
On 12/3/2010 8:12 AM, Mark Watts wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/2010 12:22 PM, Alastair Sherringham wrote: Hello, I have a Dell SC1425 1U server. It has 512 MB (it is 5 years old) and want to upgrade the RAM. I bought 4x 1GB RAM but it does not boot - POST

Re: SAS6i/R issues on CentOS5 ?

2010-12-05 Thread William Warren
On 12/3/2010 2:58 PM, Stroller wrote: On 3/12/2010, at 2:33pm, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: ... Recently we switched over to Dell R210's with SAS6i/R cards. We have these configured with 2x SATA disks on RAID-1 But we're running into issues where arrays are throwing out disks under heavy load in

Re: PE2950 + LSI SAS1068E MPT SAS won't recognize 2 TB drive in bay 1

2010-12-10 Thread William Warren
On 12/10/2010 11:46 AM, Daryl Herzmann wrote: Hi All, Anybody have a thought on this? Having this issue isn't the end of the world, as my software raid array simply rebuilds after every reboot ;) Hopefully once OMSA for RHEL6 comes out, I can try updating everything and see if that helps.