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  1. galileo3000

    Dell Servers, Lose a Drive..Lose your Raid?

    Also upgrade the firmware on the drives themselves. Dell list the various firmwares for the hard drives on their website. We had to do that on a Server and now everything is fine but it took a while to do this. The SNAP tool that Dell provided greatly facilitated this issue. Otherwises it is...
  2. galileo3000

    Poweredge 2300 Perc2 (AMI) and Win2k not booting from RAID

    ChuckCraig is right, the F6 key is needed in order to load the appropriate driver. Otherwise W2K will default to its own version of a compatible driver.
  3. galileo3000

    Dell PowerEdge 2650 REBOOTS AT WILL

    If the server is rebooting randomly, sounds like a hardware problem. Nothing in your software combination seems out of the ordinary. I would swap parts with the other 2650 to isolate the problem. The 2650 has hardly any wires so swapping parts should be pretty easy. Because of...
  4. galileo3000

    Help with RAID

    If I understand this correctly, you want to dynamically expand virtual disk defined by a hardware raid controller. This cannot be done even with parition magic without losing the data. The best way to do this is to back up all data on all partitions, recreate the raid array as you desire...
  5. galileo3000

    Tape machine offline

    I had this problem with a Dell LTO until we updated to the August 2002 driver pack from Veritas. Now we no longer have a problem.
  6. galileo3000

    4300 RAID Controller HELP NEEDED!!!

    Backup your data. You need to rebuild your array, but need to protect yourself before you do it. If I remember right you need to check to see how the raid controller sees the drive. The drive probably needs to be replaced in this raid 5. Call Dell T/S and ask them for help rebuilding this...
  7. galileo3000

    How do I add drives to a RAID 5 Array?

    You cannot dynamically expand a scsi array. Once an array (virtual disk) is defined, the configuration is set. In order to add additional drives, you need to delete the container (virtual disk) and recreate it with the new drives included in the container (virtual disk). This is because of...

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