A followup to my question... I found the firmware updates thanks to Cris. (thanks again).
I've updated ALL the firmware on this Dell 2950 (BIOS, backplane, ESM, and Perc), as well as all 6 HDs. As far as I can tell, everything is up to date. I'm still having problems with the drives in bays 4 and 5 with constant drive activity lights with a solid "on." Both of these drives were sold to me as "new" drives (see: http://www.yobitech.com/M8033_146GB_10000_RPM_3_5_SAS_hard_driv_p/dm8033.htm ). Could this be a problem with the split backplane? Any way to disable or test the split backplane? I'm heading over to the DC now to play some "swapping" games with the drives to see where the problem is, but the strange part is these two drives appear to be working completely normally, except their performance is about 25% of expected (or compared to the other drives in the box). thanks. -Hank On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Hank <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you so much -- that worked perfectly. These drivers are not > available on the Dell 2950 driver download page. > > -Hank > > > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Cris Rhea <[email protected]> wrote: >> Try: >> >> http://ftp.us.dell.com/SATA/R174948.txt >> >> http://ftp.us.dell.com/SATA/Dell_multi-device_A05_R174948.exe >> >> >> -- >> Cristopher J. Rhea >> Mayo Clinic - Research Computing Facility >> 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 >> [email protected] >> (507) 284-0587 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq >> > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
