Hello all. think how supprised I was when I got the same error on my machine. And as I wanted to start the standby machine, that wasn' t started ever since it was bought, I got the same error there too!!!??? Is there an expiration date for the controller or the mainboard. Our 3year support allready expired. what to do now? I really would apreciate a halping answer. Kind regards
We bought 11 of these PE840 at the same time. Five of them failed for the same reason almost at the same time, very suspicious. On one them we replace the SAS/iR card twice and all failed a couple of weeks later. What we did is to take a good card, power on the server and virtualize it while we can. If the HDs are in Raid 1, you should be able to plug the SAS drive to the built in SATA port, the server will boot but you'll lose R1 redundancy. then add any brand raid card, load the driver, shutdown the server, plug your SAS drive to the new raid card, boot and rebuild the R1 array.
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February 19th, 2012 17:00
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December 5th, 2012 11:00
We bought 11 of these PE840 at the same time. Five of them failed for the same reason almost at the same time, very suspicious. On one them we replace the SAS/iR card twice and all failed a couple of weeks later. What we did is to take a good card, power on the server and virtualize it while we can. If the HDs are in Raid 1, you should be able to plug the SAS drive to the built in SATA port, the server will boot but you'll lose R1 redundancy. then add any brand raid card, load the driver, shutdown the server, plug your SAS drive to the new raid card, boot and rebuild the R1 array.