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How do I install my drives in the PowerEdge 2850
Just purchased a "fully functional" PowerEdge 2850 server on Ebay, but, it arrived without any drives! So much for "fully functional"!
Anyway, I have drives arriving today. I only have 4 caddies, ...
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How to get HDD parameters from SCSI controller
The SCSI controller we are using is IBM RAID M1015 and a SATA 3 HDD is attached to it. Now the question, is there any way to get the HDD specific parameters like HDD Model number/Manufacturer, Storage ...
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SAS/SCSI Errors in Syslog: Kernel FAILED
I have a Dell 2950 2U rackmount server with 3 146GB SAS drives in a RAID array, running Slackware 10.2 (an old version, I know). Recently I am seeing these errors in my /var/log/syslog repeating very ...
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What does “- - -” in 'echo “- - -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan' mean?
I know the linux command
echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
is used to rescan scsi host. But what does "- - -" mean in the command?
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Forcing a SCSI HDD to rewrite a damaged sector
For a SATA/PATA HDD, this would be the normal procedure: http://www.sjvs.nl/?p=12
But a customer of mine has an old server with actual SCSI drives. I have tried re-writing the sector with dd to no ...
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mpt2sas1: log_info(0x31120303): Disks dropped from RAID
In my syslog I get loads of:
Mar 1 11:20:07 franklin kernel: [72947.878407] Waking error handler thread
Mar 1 11:20:07 franklin kernel: [72947.878415] Error handler scsi_eh_1 waking up
Mar 1 ...
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ntldr is missing error, is issue scsi/raid boot drive identification?
I stopped an ibm x series 266 server to clean it out. It has two scsi drives in raid 1, 36 gb. While I had the drives out for cleaning I started the server to get the fans running, to exhaust dust ...
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How do I get individual SCSI drives to show up as primary/secondary drives?
I am working on decommissioning an old server for a client. The server is an older Dell PowerEdge 1600sc with four SCSI drives. Two are stand-alone, and the other two are in RAIDx (not sure the actual ...
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How can I successfully mount an 8-bit SCSI drive on a modern computer?
I have a number of internal 8-bit SCSI-1 drives that I'd like to archive for historical purposes. These are all the old NeXT Cubes and NeXTStations (monochrome and color) that were used by id ...
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Still getting aacraid: Host adapter abort request errors after following recommended steps
I am getting the infamous aacraid: Host adapter abort request error with my new Adaptec RAID Controller under high I/O. I have read several forums, even Adaptecs, that setting the ...
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replace SCSI raid controller with SATA on SBS 2003
Is it possible to add a second raid card (there is a second pci-x slot) that uses SATA and transfer the current contents of the SCSI card's HDDs to the new larger SATA HDDs
Background: I bought 2 new ...
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need some advice on home network idea and dell poweredge 1850 [closed]
What im trying to do is make a basic home network and domain to share files with and stream movies from along with toying around with group policies and roaming profiles on some old xp tablets I have.
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server load, litespeed, scsi, nameserver fail: all messed up
First of all: I have very basic knowledge about linux servers.
Here is our dedicated server details:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
Total processor: 8
OS: Centos 32bit release 5.8 (Final)
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How can I remotely tell what brand/model internal SCSI card is installed in a machine?
I am doing some consulting work for a previous employer upgrading and migrating old servers to new hardware.
There is an existing file server (HP ProLiant DL380) that has an tape backup drive ...
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sdparm on solaris: what device name to use?
I am trying to get sdparm working on a Solaris (Express 11) machine. I got it compiled, but stuck at figuring out the device name syntax to use when calling it. Trying something like
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kvm with virtio scsi and rbd
I'm currently using virtio-blk but I'd like to change to the new virtio-scsi, especially because it supports trim/ discard. The host is an ubuntu quantal system (kernel 3.5.0, qemu 1.2.0).
This is ...
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blocked FC remote port time out: saving binding [duplicate]
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RHEL - blocked FC remote port time out: saving binding
My Server went into a faulty state since the database could not write on the partition. I found out that the ...
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RHEL - blocked FC remote port time out: saving binding
My Server went into a faulty state since the database could not write on the
partition. I found out that the partition went into Read Only mode. Finally to
fix it, I had to do a hard reboot.
Linux
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How do I put back different SCSI hard drives into their original RAID arrays across different servers?
I have potentially a big mess in my hands: I received today a box with several hard drives that used to be connected to different servers each one of them using an unknown - at least as of right now- ...
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SCSI controller vs RAID controller
I have a Poweredge server which has a Ultra 160 SCSI controller, I was wondering if this has the ability to set the drives as RAID1 or 5?
Is a SCSI & RAID controller generally the same thing?
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Is it possible to connect an HP 1760 SCSI Tape to a regular NON server board PC?
I own an Ultrium HP Tape 1760 SCSI, that used to reside on a Dell 2850, on an LSI SCSI card.
That Server is now R.I.P. Sad to say.
I want to connect the Tape to another PC, is it possible?
What ...
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Formatting an HP ProLiant DL380 G4
I have an old HP ProLiant dl380 G4 server whose hard disk needs to be formatted. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to do so. For one, it doesn't seem to be detecting any Hard Drives attached to the Server. ...
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server not working smoothly [closed]
Hi I am getting this error message in log.
Please suggest something to fix this issue
Sep 6 06:19:17 sa1 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002
Sep 6 06:19:17 sa1 kernel: sda: ...
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Can I reuse HP Proliant SCSI drives in a custom build?
I have an old HP Proliant DL385. Can I use the drives (36.4 GB - 10k, ULTRA320 SCSI) on a custom build, or is the interface a proprietary HP specific one? What support do I need from the motherboard? ...
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Is there way to read sectors from SATA drive without ECC correction?
I know, there was such possibility like that in old ATA standards: "READ LONG" command produced LBA sector + ECC payload. sg_read_long supports in in linux, but the command is obsolete for quite a ...
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Recover data from SCSI hard disk
We've got an old server with SCSI hard disk. The server crashed last week and it isn't exactly known what hardware component is damaged. Since the server is due to be retired anyway we don't want to ...
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Dell 2970 - HP 1/8 G2 autoloader keeps falling off LSI 2032 SCSI chain
I've a somewhat irritating problem with a Dell 2970 that has a HP 1/8 G2 autoloader (the Ultrium LTO 2 model) attached to the Dell/LSI 2032 non-RAID SCSI card.
In essence, sometimes the ...
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Ultrium 3 tape drive shoe-shining, 3Mb/s: and it's not the cable
I have a HP 960 Ultrium 3 tape drive. Since I got it, (second hand, £90) I've been experiencing shoe-shining. Writing with tar in Linux, I average about 3Mb/s write speed. I've tried replacing both ...
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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 SATA support?
I'm planning to get a second hand HP Proliant DL380 G4 and setup it as storage server, probably using NexentaStor and setup a ZFS system.
But now I wonder does DL380 G4 can be convert or support SATA ...
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How to block some disks from probes on Linux boot?
My linux host connected to SAN with FC interface.
It connect with one path, and see some luns, that can't access, because they need anohter path, not available to host.
On boot linux probe all lun ...
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SAS vs Near-line SAS vs SATA
I'm unsure about the differences in these storage interfaces. My Dell servers all have SAS RAID controllers in them and they seem to be cross-compatible to an extent.
The Ultra-320 SCSI RAID ...
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What are Linux SCSI command timeouts and is the default suited for software raid?
My understanding of SCSI timeouts is that any read, write, flush and other commands have a limited time to complete. If exceeded, the command is aborted and an error is reported to the upper layer. ...
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How can I connect a SAS drive to USB? [closed]
I have a Dell T710 with Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 SAS disks. If the T710 motherboard dies, I'll need to resort to one of my nightly off-site backups and salvage the journal/logfile from the SAS disk to ...
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Windows 2008 R2 x64 on VM, displaying black screen
I have migrated Windows 2008 R2 VM from one datastore to another, now when I boot the Windows on LSI Logic Parallel it shows the window booting then goes black screen before the login.
On the black ...
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I still don't understand FC HBAs and such things [closed]
There is NO documentation out there. The companies don't offer any help on their products, and there aren't text books or anything. I want to set up a storage link between my desktop and my file ...
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SCSI bus stuck in unconfigured state on SPARC/Solaris 10
The SCSI bus designated "c6" is stuck in an unconfigured state, and I cannot get the server to recognize the tape drive attached to this bus because the bus itself is not configured. Here's an ...
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USB SCSI enclosure?
We've got a stack of SCSI HDDs from a very old server that recently bit the dust. There's some chance that there is salvageable and valuable data on the drives. Are there USB enclosures akin to the ...
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Hot Swap Ultra320 SCSI LTO-Tape Drive
Can an Ultra320 SCSI LTO tape drive (or any SCSI device) be hot swapped without needing to power down the system? The current LTO tape drive is the only device on the SCSI host.
If the above can ...
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windows server 2003 “setup cannot copy the file oemsetup.inf”
I'm trying to install the SCSI drivers for a Dell server with a PERC 4e/si card in it. I can specify the driver via the F6 and load the driver with S procedure, but once I select the partition and ...
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SATA RAID or SCSI RAID Old IBM Server
Need your help on this one.
One of my SCSI HD failed in RAID 1, thinking about replacing it, but can no longer find 73gb drive on the market (only used available).
Option 1:
Clone remaining SCSI HD ...
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Can I re-assign the scsi letter for virtual floppy?
Having issues with oracle starting up in our cluster environment due to disks not lining up properly. For example, on the problematic host, I see the following.
[1:0:0:0] cd/dvd AMI Virtual ...
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Looking for scsitools (specifically scsiinfo) for Fedora / Centos
I am looking for the scsitools package for fedora. Ubuntu has such a .deb named "scsitools". Specifically I need to find out the vendor, serial number etc. of hard disks connected to a machine.
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SOLVED - Linux does not seem to see adaptec SCSI DAS volumes
Having a vtrak m310p unit, connected to a adaptec AIC79XX on a modern debian Squeeze.
On the Promise DAS, I've tried to create arrays and volumes of many sizes, but during boot the scan of the id's ...
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Disable SCSI device auto detect
i am having trouble using SCSI device on Linux.
In fact, i don't want that they can be detected until I use the following command :
echo "0 0 0" > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan
By detected ...
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Linux Rhel5.6 : SCSI protocol version — where is it defined?
In our environment, we have several storages cabinets connected to RH Linux servers. Depending on the storage cabinet connected to the host, some LUNs are seen using SCSI protocol version 2 ...
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Qemu: can I set the serial number on a virtual SCSI device?
I'm using libvirt+KVM+Qemu on Ubuntu 11.04. I have some scsi devices like this:
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source ...
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Solaris 10 new disk discovering
I'm having issues with a Solaris 10 SPARC host... It seems not able to discover newly provisioned disks. The disks are fed through a QLogic 2300 FC HBA.
I've tried cfgadm -al/cfgadm -f -c configure ...
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SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002, sense key: Aborted Command
The kernel logs:
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
ata2.00: cmd 61/08:f0:6f:5b:97/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 4096 out
res ...
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Perc 4 Configuration - Drives not showing up
Hello I am trying to configure raid on a PERC 4 running in a PowerEdge 1850. When I go into the bios configuration for the raid controller the drives I have attached are not present. Specifically ...
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kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
Yesterday, OSSEC sent me an alerting email:
Jul 29 21:25:16 SVR4149 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 334634969
Jul 29 21:25:16 SVR4149 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = ...
