dell poweredge 2300

ebenoit at hopevale.com ebenoit at hopevale.com
Wed May 25 20:26:35 EDT 2005


Thank you, now I have something to go on :)

Quoting John Seth <johnseth at phoenixwing.com>:

> I have Dell Poweredge servers which I ended up replacing all the perc/2 
> cards to perc/4 since they updated the firmware and some sligh I/O 
> issues with the onboard drives and external drive arrays I have.  You 
> may want to check and see if your poweredge system has updated perc 
> cards to replace the existing ones.
> 
> --- Tony
> 
> 
> 
> ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have tried to search on the internet as to why a couple of things happen
> to
> > this server, let me explain:
> > 
> > I have been trying to install FC3 on this server and everytime I try I get
> the
> > following errors.
> > 
> > 1. first I get this error:
> > warning firmware out of date please update ..it recognizes all scsi hard
> drives 
> > 
> > this is the 2nd error I get ...please help!!
> > 
> > 2.
> > Could not allocate requested partitions:
> > 
> > Unsatisfied partition request
> > New Part Request - mountpoint None uniqueID: 9
> > type: physical volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: None
> > device: None drive: ['sdb'] primary: None
> > start: None end: None migrate: None origfstype: None.
> > 
> > 
> > "is this just simply telling me that the lithium battery is dead??"
> > 
> > OR
> > 
> > Do I need to update the firmware, I have no idea how to execute an .exe
> file
> > when I have completely erased any dos partitions that might have exsited
> please
> > advise??
> > 
> > OR 
> > something else i overlooked?
> > 
> > Thank you linux friends...
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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