No, we couldn't find solution. When I installed it on PE 6850 machine, the BIOS detected it at bootup screen and OS also detected it. I think that it's BIOS that can't detect the card. Well, we are now using USB 2.0. It's slow, but it has no hassle.
We have purchased two external enclosures to work via eSATA but are unable to get any cards to work in the machine - this is a major issue for us. The plan was to use these two port multipliers to implement two new external raid 10 storage devices - fast and secure.
DELL - is there any solution that will work? These cards work in every other machine in the office except the PowerEdge 1950. We have the PCIe slots so I would expect PCIe cards to work in these slots. How do we go about getting a solution to this issue(We have updated the BIOS to the most recent version available)
Does anyone know of a eSATA card that actually does work in the 1950?
Dell offers a PERC6E that you can put in a 1950 and this has 2 external SAS ports that could connect to an MD1000. You can even daisy chain up to 3 MD1000's per port yielding a max of 6 MD1000's on a single PERC6E (or 90 harddrives). This can be any combination of SAS and/or SATA drives.
You could try the PERC6E with 3rd party enclosure and see how far it gets you.
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No, we couldn't find solution. When I installed it on PE 6850 machine, the BIOS detected it at bootup screen and OS also detected it. I think that it's BIOS that can't detect the card. Well, we are now using USB 2.0. It's slow, but it has no hassle.
utilacor
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June 23rd, 2008 22:00
Thanks for the response.
We have purchased two external enclosures to work via eSATA but are unable to get any cards to work in the machine - this is a major issue for us. The plan was to use these two port multipliers to implement two new external raid 10 storage devices - fast and secure.
DELL - is there any solution that will work? These cards work in every other machine in the office except the PowerEdge 1950. We have the PCIe slots so I would expect PCIe cards to work in these slots. How do we go about getting a solution to this issue(We have updated the BIOS to the most recent version available)
Does anyone know of a eSATA card that actually does work in the 1950?
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Dell offers a PERC6E that you can put in a 1950 and this has 2 external SAS ports that could connect to an MD1000. You can even daisy chain up to 3 MD1000's per port yielding a max of 6 MD1000's on a single PERC6E (or 90 harddrives). This can be any combination of SAS and/or SATA drives.
You could try the PERC6E with 3rd party enclosure and see how far it gets you.
Here
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are some of the specs on the PERC6E.