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Disks or Server PowerEdge 2800 configuration with problem
Greetings community,
I have a PowerEdge 2800 server with three (3) 36GB Ultra320 SCSI hard
drives, and I am getting the following information when I run the system
startup, as well as when entering configuration mode by Ctrl + M. My
question is to know if the hard drives are damaged or I have a
configuration problem, according to the screenshots that I share.
PowerEdge 2800 server specifications.
Thanks for your help.
Dell-DylanJ
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February 25th, 2019 08:00
The drives are all in ready states, as opposed to online states, which means that they aren't acting as array members. It could be physical drive errors that caused this error. You might try running hardware diagnostics on the server, as well as reseating the drives and any backplane cables to make sure you have good communication.
Errors in the virtual disk, the PERC, or connection can also cause drives to fall out of an online state.
jobarreno
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February 27th, 2019 16:00
Dell-DylanJ
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February 28th, 2019 06:00
I've seen communication problems cause a drives capacity to not read, but it's far more common for a drive to show as 0MB when it fails. I wouldn't rule failure out, but with there being multiple drives, I wouldn't start at that conclusion.
jobarreno
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February 28th, 2019 19:00
Hello, Dell-DylanJ
Today I tried other 146GB discs that I could get, now if it reflected the capacity, I created a RAID 5 with three hard drives of equal capacity. But when trying to install windows server 2003, a message says that it does not see the hard drive, I think it is the storage controller, but I do not know which I should download in the DELL web.
The device is a PowerEdge 2800, with 3 SCSI 146GB 320U disks in RAID 5.
I've been investigating maybe this could help me, what opinion would you give me?
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=r146318&oscode=wnet&productcode=poweredge-2800
Dell-DylanJ
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March 1st, 2019 07:00
I believe that should help you. I haven't worked with this generation server as much, due to its age, but I believe that ISO you located should provide an OS deployment wizard, similar to modern servers.
This .exe wants to use a diskette, but I changed the file extension to .zip after downloading and was able to view the driver information.
https://www.dell.com/support/home/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=8kn93&oscode=wnet&productcode=poweredge-2800
Hope this helps out.