Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
Thanks guys... I have forwarded the comments from Scott to the Dell and hope for the best Thank you again. VJ On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of > 0x35/0x05. Looking this up in the

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Long
The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of 0x35/0x05. Looking this up in the ASC table found at t10.org gives the following: 35h/05h ENCLOSURE SERVICES CHECKSUM ERROR What this basically means is that the disk enclosure that you're using has some sort of an unknown d

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide support > for FreeBSD based systems [?] > Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver. He should be a

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide support for FreeBSD based systems [?] Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: >

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it > controller problem or disk? SCSI normally reports 3 things when it encounters an error (particularly disk errors): Sense Key (SK), Additional Sense Code (ASC), and Addit

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it controller problem or disk? Regards VJ On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:49 AM, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I am running RAID 10. > > Here is the dmesg output: > > $ dmesg > Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Proj

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread VeeJay
Hi Guys I am running RAID 10. Here is the dmesg output: $ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBS

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:43:46PM +0800, TJ Varghese wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > > > the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) > > on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I us

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread TJ Varghese
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello > > > > the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) > on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use > the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel > is, in this man

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 19:39 +0100, VeeJay wrote: > Hi Brian > > Thanks. I sent the attachment but FreeBSD List would not allow me to First order of business is to _not_ send it as a BMP. Use PNG instead, and post the URL and not the actual file: http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/20081023_serv

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 11:35:33 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:44AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > > Hello Guys > > > > I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with > > FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller > > on

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello I have used the PERC on dells 2900 & 2950 they are trick pieces of hardware and can easyly wipe out the contents of your disk drive on the CTRL-R screen (setup screen). the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use the

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:01 +0100, VeeJay wrote: > There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on > one server. Screw Dell's diagnostics tools. Those are there to help psychology majors who got their MCSE and RHCE after they realized that all you can do with a psychology degree is te

Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay
Hello Jeremy, Thanks for the feedback... here is the configuration of server: *2 x PE2950 III Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0GHz,2x6MB,1333FSB *Riser with PCI Express Support (2x PCIe x8 slots; 1x PCIe x4 slot) PE2950 English rack power cord PE2950 Bezel Assembly *16GB (8x2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz FBD

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:05:44AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: > Hello Guys > > I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with > FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on > one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting t

Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread VeeJay
Hello Guys I am in a situation here. I am running couple of Dell 2950 Servers with FreeBSD 7.0 amd. There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on one server. From Dell support, I was told to download a troubleshooting tool called DSET. ( http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.a