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January 11th, 2011 11:00
md3200 + h800
Hi all,
We have 2 R710 with PERC H800 adapter + 1 R710 with simple 6 Gbps SAS HBA adapter (also Dell) and MD3200 with single RAID controller. The storage and the simple adapter works fine, but H800 adapters don't. All firmware and driver is up-to-date, storage can access all hosts with host identifiers, but in ws08r2 disk management mmc or in device manager can't see the virtual disks.
If I run OpenManage Server Admin and browse Storage section, I have a red cross at H800 adapter\Connector1\Health\Enclosure (Backplane). But there is one cable between adapter and storage at Connector 0 not 1. I tried reset adapters, changed cables, and a lot of things, but no results...
Dev Mgr
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January 11th, 2011 13:00
The MD3200 has raid controllers in it (in your case just 1). Therefor, you cannot connect to it with another raid controller; you have to connect with a regular SAS controller (the SAS6E to be more precise).
The H800 adapter is for connecting (directly) to an MD1200 or MD1220 (with is just a disk enclosure without a raid controller, so it needs a raid controller to connect it to (this could be an MD3200 or an H800 (inside a server)).
tamas.gal
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January 12th, 2011 00:00
Thx DEV MGR, it’s an explanation for everything. One more q: can use/config this adapter as a simple adapter? So can I disable raid controller function?
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January 12th, 2011 06:00
You can't disable the raid functionality on the PERC cards (on some of the older servers with the raid controller integrated on the motherboard (Dell doesn't do this anymore (they use a dedicated slot for the PERC adapters now)) you could select PERC or SCSI, but that is no longer the case).
I suggest you return the cards if you still can and have Dell swap them for (cheaper (usually)) SAS6E adapters.