Maybe there's a config option in the controller to stop complaining 
about non-certified disks? On our T610 with PERC H200, OMSA shows a 
warning but here aren't any orange lights...

El 25/06/17 a las 22:49, L A Walsh escribió:
>
> John Barlow wrote:
>> Probably just a warning state that the disks are not "dell certified"?
>> Assuming you have a Dell PERC raid card, they normally give a warning on 
>> non-dell certified disks (even same model and make, but not dell branded 
>> disks give a warning).
>>    
> ---
>      The controller for the internal disks is a Dell Perc card though none
> of the disks used in it have been Dell "Certified" (came with 2x250GB
> SATA's; that were replaced by 3x72GB 15k-SAS's for the OS).
>
>> I think you need to do more digging, maybe get Dell OMSA working, so you can 
>> find out more.
>>    
> ----
>      Maybe so, was such a pain to get working last time but maybe worth it...
> Don't expect much more info from it, except it might say they are
> non-Dell or
> such.
>
> FWIW -- I left them in the machine, powered up, but unused, for ~3-4 months
> (trying to make up my mind whether or not to put them to use) before I
> got tired
> of the blinking lights.  The last test on them before removal still
> showed them as "ok"...   (though am not experienced w/determining or
> recognizing pre-failure indicators on SSDs).
>
> -l
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of L A Walsh
>> Sent: Monday, 26 June 2017 6:05 AM
>> To: Poweredge Mail List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] PwrEdge T610 w/MegaRaid SAS 1078 w/ SSD's - blink 
>> "orange", but "seem to work"
>>
>> I have a T610 that I bought w/an internal HW PERC?-RAID
>> that linux shows as a LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 that
>> is supporting 8 internal 3.5" slots (I think 12 internal 2.5"
>> slots were an alternate model).
>>
>> I have some old 15K SAS disks that I want to replace with
>> SSD's.  Four of the slots are currently unused and I tried
>> putting in 4 Crucial-Brand Sata-Based SSD's I had sitting around as a
>> test run.
>>
>> I thought I'd config them as a RAID10 for safety and the controller
>> indicated all were fine and had no problem configuring them for
>> that config.  The composite disk shows up under Linux with the
>> expected storage size with "roughly" the expected performance
>> characteristics.
>>
>> Problem that bothered me was that the slots that
>> had the SSD's in them would blink orange, that would normally,
>> I thin, be associated with a fault of some sort.  The other three
>> populated slots with SAS drives continued working
>> normally and didn't blink orange, indicating that it was
>> only the 4 SSD's that were getting the blinking orange fault
>> indicator.
>>
>> The LSI controller didn't indicate any problems with the disks (they
>> were 'fine' for RAID use) and Linux indicated no error, so I formatted
>> and ran full-disk R/W tests on them with no problems.  The LSI card's
>> internal log and the BIOS's internal NVRAM log showed no problems with
>> the disks.
>>
>> I checked to see that I had the lastest released Dell-ROM for that system
>> as well as checking for the latest updates for the controller from both
>> Dell's and LSI's (then Avago, now Broadcom's) websites and it appeared
>> I had the latest releases for the machine and the controller.
>>
>> Any idea why the T610 would blink orange on SSD's?  Any idea how
>> to get it to stop blinking orange?
>>
>> I'd prefer to have it not falsely indicate a problem, but if
>> it's an unfixable firmware problem, is it something I might
>> just ignore?
>>
>> Any insights, pointers or ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>       Linda Walsh
>>
>>
>>
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