Dell PERC 5/i Battery Needs Replacing
Mark Berry June 30, 2012
On a Dell PowerEdge 1900, I was noticing in the OpenManage Alert log that the disk cache policy kept “bouncing” between Write Through and Write Back.
More...Manage and Monitor Dell PERC RAID under Linux
Mark Berry February 17, 2012
I’ve repurposed an old Dell PowerEdge 1500SC with a PERC 3/SC RAID card for use as a Linux phone server running Asterisk. Unfortunately, the only version of Dell OpenManage that works for the 1500SC (OpenManage 4.5 docs and download) is only supported under Redhat 7.1. I’m using CentOS 5.2, so I’m out of luck.
I eventually found that I could use Linux tools for the LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-1LP to control and monitor the PERC 3/SC. Visit this download page and search for “OS: Linux”.
More...Excuse Me, Your SCSI Is Slipping
Mark Berry June 29, 2007
So you’ve got a hot-swap SCSI RAID array and you figure you are covered, even if a disk fails. Well, that is usually true. Kinda. Here is a long story with a few short conclusions about what to do when SCSI drives start failing.
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