Gee thanks J This Monday needs a bit of humor anyway. All hell is breaking loose (as usual).
Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell 2600 drive issue what, you mean it requires 'magic firmware' ??? <grin> sorry, couldn't help poke fun at last week's thread. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 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. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, I have an older Dell 2600 server with a PERC 4/Di. There are six drives in a RAID 5 configuration. The PERC reports one of the drives has failed. I've replaced the drive, rebuilt the array, then it fails again. Did it again, same thing. It seems to be more of a drive bay issue, as I can take those "failed" drives and use them elsewhere without issue. Normally I'd just decommission the server, as it's pretty old, but this server runs our directory synchronization product, which I only need for a few more months, and is a real pain to install/configure/patch, so I'd like to keep it going. Anyone ever seen anything like this? I see no option to tell the controller to ignore the drive and be done with it. Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _____ If this email is spam, report it here: <http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6MTAxNTc5NDUyO TpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29t> http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
