Perc2 SC Data Rate?

Hi Alastair,

It's 80 MB/s

For any PERC or other Dell RAID controller.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/

Cheers, warwizard

 

Hi Gary,
Mnay thanks. And thanks for the pointer. I was looking in wrong place as usual not under "storage". My question is as I have chance of PE6350 which has Perc2 controller and I was thinking of canabalizing it for processors (4x550MHz) and the Perc2. Any catches in this? I know I have to adjust jumper for processor speed but what else?
Regards,
Alastair.

Alaistair,

  Other than updating first the ESM then the BIOS, I see no problems in moving the procs and PERC 2 to your PE6300 that we discussed in the previous thread. The speed jumpers are in the back left corner when viewed from the front, and are devilishly hard to reach. I advise pulling the system board out, to set the jumpers.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/semer/en/index.htm

Cheers, warwizard

Hi Gary,
Now I am really showing my ignorance... ESM?
Best wishes,
Alastair.

Alistair,

  Embedded Systems Management, it's all the voltage sensors, fan tachometers, and temperature probes, and the F/W to record any warnings or failures in the ESM log. The ESM log is viewable via the Openmanage tools.

Warwizard

Hi Gary,
I now have 6350/550 to canabalize for parts to upgrade 6300.
One question. The mobo jumpers only offer up to 500MHz. What jumper positions do I use for 550MHz processors?
Regards,
Alastair.

likely reserved 1.

warwizard

Hi Warwizard,

Many thanks for your reply. I shall check again but I do not recall any reserved 1 beyond the 500MHz pins.

Did you see my posting elsewhere about swapping the system board for one from a 6350 machine? That would solve all the problems and the boards are almost identical.

BTW, does the absence of a fan connection or a case intrusion jumper being open circuit prevent the BIOS from loading?

Sorry to ask so many questions but I still cannot find the correct software for the ESM. I can find remote management which can read logs but the only software close to what you described is detailed as "firmware". Do I have to run that to update the ESM firmware?

Regards,
Alastair.

Bios and ESM should be done from MSDOS Disks with no config.sys and No autoexec.bat BY HAND.

A DOS WINDOW IN NT/2000/XP IS NOT DOS. DO NOT TRY ESM FROM A DOS WINDOW IF IT DOESNT HANG IT WILL SCRAMBLE THE BIOS AND KILL THE SYSTEM.

Hi Speedstep.
Yes I understand this. Same with Dos box in OS/2. I see that some of the flash downloads are to create bootable floppies so that is what I will use. or else create bootable dos floppy.
Many thanks for the warning.
Regards,
Alastair

Hi Gary,
Many thanks. I had read the manual but it doesn't actually confirm that rsvd1 is for 550MHz and I see that each time you suggest this in the forum you are slightly equivocal.
Thanks for the urls of the ESM and BIOS updates. I shall sort that out now.
BTW I went through all the downloads and couldn't identify anything but ESM firmware flash. Do I run a58cust.exe first or change the processors first?
Regards,
Alastair.

Hi WarWizard,
Well the a58cust.exe installed like a dream and all the old FW versions were updated without a hitch.

Sadly the 2500-A07.exe would not flash. I received a red message that it could not be used on 6300 server.

I note that both were available for download under a 2500 server heading and that the latest ESM update is not available under the PW6300. How do I find out and you know which BIOS update to use if not listed under the actual machine I wish to update?
Regards,
Alastair.

Hi Gary,
Sorry, one last question. The U.84 PercII flash offers two options, cluster or not, (U.84 or C.81 images)
The existing is Uc.77. I believe I should not use cluster but am troubled by the "c" in the present firmware. Can you please confirm which I should use?
Regards,
Alastair.