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One Server HDD solid Red. No listed Errors
I recently received an older rack server on which to try some projects on. I'm rather inexperienced with server hardware at this point. I was trying to set up a RAID 1 configuration between two SCSI ...
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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 = ...
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How do I power SATA drives in my DELL poweredge 2850?
I have a Dell 2850 which I've been fairly happy with. It runs RAID 5 to 6 Hot-swap SCSI drives, but I'd like to add some cheap storage. So I bought an Intel PCI-X SATA raid card and tried to install ...
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SAS vs SAS2 interface
I´m pretty new to this server environment and I´m looking to expand the capacity of our HP Proliant DL385 G2 server. I want to replace the 146 GB disks with 300 GB disks.
My question is:
Can I use a ...
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Which controller should I buy for a SCSI-3 tape drive? [closed]
I have a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960, which have a SCSI-3 interface.
It is a quite old tape drive, so which SCSI controller should I buy?
Update
It is for PCI or PCI-X and the server is running ...
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Adaptec SCSI Card 39160. What to do with it? [closed]
Almost 10 years ago I bough an Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 for two Hitachi hard disks, with 80/68 pins adapters and cables and all the accoutrements.
The hard disks died after 2 years (so much for ...
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View attached SCSI devices under Windows SBS SP2
I've a problematic HP StorageWorks autoloader drive running on a Windows Server Standard FE SP2 (aka: Windows SBS 2008) box.
As my first port of call in terms of problem diagnosis, I thought I'd ...
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Dell PE2800 SCSI Problem - Channel-0: 4 Not Responding
On Monday, I installed Debian on a PE2800, stacked it full of SCSI hard drives and configured it as an iSCSI RAID device using tgt. It all worked fantastically, and karma naturally stepped in to ...
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Adding a single 300Gb SCSI drive to poweredge 2850
I have a 2850 setup with 3 146Gb drives, two partitions 1 12GB system with server 2003 sp2 and 1 261Gb Data. I am strapped on disk space on the data partition having to push data around. I wanted to ...
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Tape drive not showing at POST
I want to move our old LTO 2 tape drive down in order so our new LTO3 is the primary backup and if for any reason the LTO3 fails then at least I can backup critical data using the LTO2.
I have moved ...
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Symantec backupexec troubleshooting issues with a Dell Robotic tape Library in Windows 2003
I’m running Symantec BackupExec 12.0 on a Windows 2003 server. After I powered down my SCSI tape drive (Dell PowerVault 124t autoloader) it no longer shows up in Backup Exec in the device pool.
So ...
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Why is a single drive much faster than 4 of them in RAID5?
I have a 2005 vintage server (dual 3GHz Xeons, LSI53C1030T RAID/SCSI controller with 256MB cache, 8GB RAM) and I'm re-purposing it for some light VM storage duty.
First try to was to put 4x300GB ...
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motherboard died, not replacing.. how do i mount SCSI drives and recover data?
I have an old IBM x206 with Ultra 320 SCSI drives, the motherboard died and Im not replacing it but the data on the drives is still important.
I dont have another similar server to hand, is there ...
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Ubuntu Server install on SCSI array
I installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on an Infortrend storage array connected over SCSI to an IBM Server.
The installation goes well and the SCSI controller recognizes the Disk.
When I boot the ...
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Disk full, du tells different. How to further investigate?
I have a SCSI disk in a server (hardware Raid 1), 32G, ext3 filesytem. df tells me that the disk is 100% full. If I delete 1G this is correctly shown.
However, if I run a du -h -x / then du tells me ...
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ServeRAID 8i setup
I purchased a second hand IBM eServer x345 with ServeRAID 8i and 3x 36GB SCSI hard drives.
I'm having difficulty setting up an operating system as the drives don't appear in either Arch or Ubuntu ...
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RHEL/CentOS reassign scsi device letter
if I remove the physical disk associated with /dev/sdb and add a new disk in the same slot, it will be assigned /dev/sdc (or whatever the next available letter is). Is there any way powered on that I ...
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Connecting a Direct Attached Storage array to multiple servers
Is it possible to connect multiple servers to the same Direct Attached Storage array, something like the Dell MD1200 or MD1220?
I see from the specs that each one of these arrays supports two ...
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Quick Help Cloning Disk
I want to clone the OS disk on a Windows 2003 server. The server has 2-SCSI drives, and I simply would like to clone the first drive to the second.
There is no RAID card in the server, and software ...
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How to set up an Infiniband SRP Target?
I want to set up a server as a SCSI Target.
How good are the open source implementations?
What is the tutorial one?
How is performance and reliability?
How dependent is the OS? How much is ...
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Storage subsystem borking after server restart (all on a Parallel SCSI bus)
I have a server (with a SCSI HBA) connected to two Promise VTrak M310p RAID enclosure on the same bus. Everything is working fine until I have to restart my server. Once restarted, the server can no ...
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Install SAS/SATA backplane in Dell PowerVault 220S
Is the backplane of a Dell PowerVault 220S svc tag 3sdpcb1 (14 drive, 80 pin hot swap scsi)
upgradeable to a SAS/SATA backplane & controller card replacement?
The unit already seems to be quite ...
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SAS vs SSD Performance
Hi does anyone have any input on how a SAS 15k RPM drive would perform compared to a sata based SSD drive, assuming its using the latest verison of sata.
These drives would be in a 4 drive raid 10 ...
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SSD drives with SAS Interface
Why there aren't any SSD with SAS interface? Are there any technological limitations or it is simply because manufacturers haven't produced one yet?
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Where is /proc/scsi/scsi in Debian 6?
I recently installed Debian 6 in a VM on ESXi 4.1, but I noticed there is no /proc/scsi/scsi. Am I missing a module which provides that, or is there a different way of doing things like echo "scsi ...
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Supply power to more than 4 SCSI devices? [closed]
I was wondering, essentially I wanted to pool 4-10 SCSI drives in to a single computer, but of course only have a limited amount of 12v power cables to go in to them. What would be the proper way to ...
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Can anyone think of an innovative use for 100 units of 43Gb SCSI Ultra hard disk drives? [closed]
These SCSI hard disks (4.3Tb total) were pulled from a decommissioned EMC storage array. The obvious use would be 200 very strong fridge magnets... but there may be a more dignified way to retire ...
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win server 2003 crashed 8-(
All of a sudden Win 2003 server crashed on PowerEdge 2003. All the drives are SCSI based. I can't the access them anymore... What would be the best way to recover the files? I opened the server. There ...
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Vmware SCSI Controller LSILogic
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I could not upgrade directly from WinNT Server to Windows 2003. So I upgraded WinNT to Win2000 Server(luckily no SCSI issues at all ), and now am thinking of upgrading Win2000 to Win2003.
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Does Hyper-V support SCSI Pass-through discs in a Server 2003 R2 VM?
I'm running into some difficulties getting pass-through disks to be accessible to a Hyper-v server 2003 r2 virtual machine.
Host OS : Server 2008 R2 full w/Hyper-V role
Guest OS : Server 2003 R2 ...
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How does Linux determine the SCSI address of a disk?
Greetings,
I'm working with RHEL 5.5 guest VMs under VMware ESX 4. When I configure the virtual disks in the VM hardware settings, each disk has a SCSI address in the format "N:M". For example, "1:3" ...
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Extracting data from a RAID 1 array with out original controller
A Dell x346 server crashed (motherboard went bad) and I need to get a few files off of the hard drive. They are 2 SCSI hard drives in RAID 1. As far as I know both drives are fine.
Can I just put one ...
