Recent content by maultier

The drive with the amber light has likely failed and should be replaced. The replacement should be done hot (not powered down). Pulling one drive out of the 'caution' zone will not impact the array. It is designed to withstand a hot swap. As for the DAE, you could have a bad power supply, bad...

Repeated failures of downstream drives might lead me to believe that the 0 drive was the culprit particularly since you say the drive doesn't rebuild once reinserted. That seems to say to me that the controller is waiting for drive 0 to signal an operation was completed so that commands could...

It's possible that you have a faulty server. If you are not hearing any beeps at power on, you may have a bad cpu or motherboard.If you're hearing beeps then note the code.. I would assume that it would be a memory fault code if you are hearing the beepsbut, depending on the pattern you hear...

You could purchase a PCIX riser card or return the scsi card for a PCIe version.

I have had cases where the motherboard was not compatible with the riser card but it did not stop POST. I would suggest taking the riser off and making sure there are no bent pins. Beyond that..the usual recommendations to strip the machine to a basic level...no pci cards installed.. remove the...

If it is the old SCSI Clariion, just 25 pin comm cable to a dumb terminal or hyperterm should get you to Gridman. Once there that may refresh your memory. I think the settings were 96-8-even. You might have to play with that a bit..not a 100% on that. Might be thinking about the next generation...

Nope..unaffiliated. Just an old DG tech.. worked some BL Trading customers back in the day.. but that's about it.

That is just too old.... Park Place International http://parkplaceintl.com/ still services old DG gear. The EMC Storage Solutions forum will have help on Clariion.

The iso file you downloaded should be burned to a CD. If your IBM system has a DVD, you may burn to a DVD. Many older systems have CD Drives and, of course, the DVD would not booton those systems. I'm not familiar with your burning program. You should have the option of just burning the iso...

Using the ServRaid CD is the best way to find out what the status of the array is. If the disks were configured as a Raid 0, you would have to restore the system from backup (after replacing the failed disk). IF you had a Raid 1 or Raid 5 configuration, you may be able to 'force' the drive...

You might want to try to update the bios. IBM shows this machine at 1.08

Drives do not have to be identical. You can create another raid 5 with your three empty slots.

I believe the array should be reporting 'online' if it is in a viable state. Can you actually access the data? If it is just the 146 reporting as 'Ready' then you probably just need to get into OpenManage and force the rebuild.

It may be a Flare code issue. You could go back to Dell and ask them what Flare revision you need to support the drives you purchased.

The C drive should be easy. Just go back to the Ctrl I menu where you set the factory defaults and select the menu itme that reads the configuration off the disk. You should see your mirror again once you've done that. As to the D drives... it is often the case that a faulty drive will cause...