PERC3/DCL beeping... How do you stop it?

Question

We've got a PowerEdge 1550 with a PERC3/DCL controller. One of the drives in the raid set failed, and of course the controller started beeping. Fine. I've swapped in a new drive for the bad one, so the raid set is in the process of rebuilding. Now how do I shut the darn beeper up? On other systems I can go into the raid management software and tell it to stop beeping. I'm using the latest PERC3 software and firmware on this machine, though, and there no longer seems to be a way to stop the beeper. I can 'unblink' the drive, but that doesn't stop it from beeping. This is incredibly annoying as we have numerous people working around these servers throughout the day, and sitting there listening to one of them continuously beeping for a couple hours at a time (while the rebuild happens) can drive a person nuts. -joe

tommo666 · Answer

The alarm is silenced usinig the properties of the perc. Select the adapter and right click, look in the syb menu for alarm control, then select silence.

relayer77 · Answer

Just to add my 2 cents, there is also a disable option in the same menu.

ZyxtJoe · Answer

Ah, found the option. Thanks everyone. For my particular driver/software version of the Server Administrator web client, I did this (for future reference):

On the tree on the left, drill down to the PERC adapter in question and click it.

On the right, click on the "Information/Configuration" option.

Down below, you'll see a drop down list of "Controller Tasks" which include options such as "quiet alarm" and "disable alarm".

Don't know how I missed that the first 3 times through. :)
Thanks again!
-joe

Message Edited by ZyxtJoe on 09-04-2007 01:20 PM

roughkut · Answer

hello all,   i have an inspiron 1520 (vista OS).  there has been a few occasions while using it (one of those times i was on the net), that my 1520 emitted a warning sound.  i do not know what it was warning me of, but i do recognize it as being a warning sound.  in the past, i restarted the 1520 and would not hear this sound again for maybe another 10 days or so.  this perc controller that you are speaking of, how would i be able to ascertain if this is the sound i am getting?  i ran a hardware check and the system passed.  i have another vista laptop that i've had since june and have never heard a similiar noise.  they do seem to run hotter than a desktop, i was wondering if this is a possibility.  sure do appreciate your input. regards, marcie

ZyxtJoe · Answer

This discussion is actually referring to the PERC raid controllers found in Dell's PowerEdge servers. Your laptop won't have this controller, so you must be experiencing something unrelated. -joe

Dennis Smith · Answer

roughkut,   You may want to post in the General Hardware section of the notebook forum as they would be of better assistance to you.  This forum is for Server & Storage.

Oz_b384 · Answer

In SCSI PERC cards made by LSI (PERC 3 PCI Cards and all PERC 4), you can silence or disable the alarm from the Raid controlelr BIOS (accessed by CTRL-M during POST).   Go to Objects -> Adapter -> Alarm Control There you will have three options:   Silence:  Silences the alarm until the next reboot Disable: Turns the alarm off, you will have to return to this point and enable the alarm if you ever want to hear it again.  Enable: turns the alarm on after is has been disabled

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

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