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  1. MikePolis

    Poweredge 2550 Drives

    Opps spell check If you are not seeing the drives in array manager that’s why they are not showing in the OS. Still sounds like a HW problem to me. The 2550 has 4 drives bays on the front and they connect to the scsi backplane but if you are adding a fifth drive inside the chassis and you...
  2. MikePolis

    Poweredge 2550 Drives

    If you are not seeing the drives in array manager that’s why they are not showing in the OS. Still sounds like a HW problem to me. The 2550 has 4 drives bays on the front and they connect to the scsi backplane but if you are adding a fifth drive inside the chassis and you have to have a second...
  3. MikePolis

    Add Button Greyed out in Trusted Sites setup in IE 6

    It is MS Server 2000. There is not a registry key for SecAddSites. I have made sure that all the registry keys are set for 0 that are listed and still have the problem. Michael
  4. MikePolis

    Life expectancy of DLT 4's

    I think it's much longer then that all of mine are over 5 years old and have not had one failure. Here is some info about specific tape life http://storageconference.org/2003/papers/15_Judge-Media.pdf Hope that helps Michael
  5. MikePolis

    Heat Dispersion Information

    Just an FYI the version I have on my desktop and the one sent you the link to has all the Dell legacy severs in it. Like the old white box towers like 2100/2200 are in there. And there is a yellow NON-Dell button that’s lets you enter the height, weight, thermal, amps for 100, 115, 230 that I...
  6. MikePolis

    Poweredge 2550 Drives

    Have you tried to see if you can see the drives in something other then the OS? Try Dell Diags or the onboard setup for the RAID card and see if you can see them. Are these new drives or have they been in place for a while? They might have to inintalized by the RAID card SW inorder for the...
  7. MikePolis

    Heat Dispersion Information

    If you use the rack advisor you can it shows heating and power info for all the servers, tape drives, UPS and all the other Dell products and lets you add non-dell if you know the stats and has a graphic display of the rack and space left. It's free from Dell and here is the link...
  8. MikePolis

    Poweredge 2550 ESM log

    Try running the Log2Text utility to clear the ESM log. If you've got OMSA, you can try clearing the log in there, if that doesn't work, I'd try using this utility. HTH Michael
  9. MikePolis

    Anonymous, Encrypted Browser Plugin...

    I do not have first hand experience with it but I know several of the users have it and they have not reported any problems at all. HTH Michael
  10. MikePolis

    Add Button Greyed out in Trusted Sites setup in IE 6

    I have a system where the client came in and installed SW on the server and as a part of that was IE 6. I am the admin for the box and have the local admin signon but when I signon and try and do a windows update I get the message about active x and scripting and to add the site to the trusted...
  11. MikePolis

    Turn off response to ping

    I am running Netware 4.1 with TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. Is there a way to turn off the servers response to the ping command? I seem to recall seeing this done and do not remmber how. Thanks Michael
  12. MikePolis

    Adding a sound card to Dell Poweredge 1400sc

    I have never heard such a thing. I tested Dell Poweredge Servers at Dell for 5 years and although we did not test sound cards they take the take the view serious that they try to make the boxes as open as possible since that's what hurt IBM and Compaq in the past was requiring proprietary...
  13. MikePolis

    Drive failure with no amber light?

    Just a question but are the containers scrubbing. When you post and if it says the container is scrubbing then the array manager will call that degraded even though the drive has not failed. Michael
  14. MikePolis

    Security Clearance-How to get

    Jay I am a system admin for the Air Force and I had never had a security clearance before coming here. The job stated, "must have or be able to pass" and what ever level that is. I came on and they started on mine and I just worked on the clearance paperwork first thing when I got here. The...
  15. MikePolis

    Taking Spam To Task

    Spamers are smart how do they know my chest needs enlarging [smile] [machinegun] Spamers Thanks harebrain needed a good laugh this am. [thumbsup] Michael
  16. MikePolis

    RAID 1 HD running out of space

    lilmrk (TechnicalUser) Mar 6, 2004 Does partition magic work with windows 2000 server? Yes it does. I use to work in Dell Enterprise System test and that is one of the things we did to each server. Michael
  17. MikePolis

    Broadcom NIC Teaming Software

    Thanks I'll try that. Michael
  18. MikePolis

    HP/Compaq shop switching to Dell

    As a laid-off ex-Dell employee I am not tring to win them any favors but in the process of getting all the info. you might want to look at this. Dell cancels Indian tech support AUSTIN, Texas (AP) --After an onslaught of complaints, Dell Inc. has stopped using a technical support center in...
  19. MikePolis

    Broadcom NIC Teaming Software

    I have two of the NetXtreme Gigabit NIC ports on my Dell Poweredge running backup exec 9.1 and I have them teamed together using broadcom software. On the team properties under the load balance/Virtual Lan page. There are 3 options: Smart Load Balance and Fail Over Link Aggregation (802.3ad)...

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