I did extra test (before leaving work), and downloaded OMSA CentOS Live image, and tried from it run racadm - same result so the card must be broken.
Seller decided to replace card because "very likely card is broken". So, now I'm waiting for new card.
If I don't forget, I will post summary :)
--- Summary ---
I got 2 more cards from seller. None of them worked, firmware update found card, updated to latest but racadm didn't want to work :( .
I was packing cards back to give them back to seller but I decided to check once more.... So I put each one card into server and I tried from OMSA Live CentOS run racadm getsysinfo . I don't know if I should be really happy but one of DRACs answered :), so without hesitation I executed "racadm racresetcfg" and I got no error (happy), then I waited a moment for card to reset and run again getsysinfo but it failed like before, nevertheless now I can log in into web and I changed password.
I suspect the riser board, but the PREC raid card works fine so there might be something off only with this PCI slot where drac is put on. Seller also admitted that he had to specially order riser that allow to install drac4 card.
przemo.w
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January 19th, 2015 02:00
Hello,
I did extra test (before leaving work), and downloaded OMSA CentOS Live image, and tried from it run racadm - same result so the card must be broken.
Seller decided to replace card because "very likely card is broken". So, now I'm waiting for new card.
If I don't forget, I will post summary :)
--- Summary ---
I got 2 more cards from seller. None of them worked, firmware update found card, updated to latest but racadm didn't want to work :( .
I was packing cards back to give them back to seller but I decided to check once more.... So I put each one card into server and I tried from OMSA Live CentOS run racadm getsysinfo .
I don't know if I should be really happy but one of DRACs answered :), so without hesitation I executed "racadm racresetcfg" and I got no error (happy), then I waited a moment for card to reset and run again getsysinfo but it failed like before, nevertheless now I can log in into web and I changed password.
I suspect the riser board, but the PREC raid card works fine so there might be something off only with this PCI slot where drac is put on. Seller also admitted that he had to specially order riser that allow to install drac4 card.
I consider this as solved :)
Ps. Sorry for my bad English.