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shane5

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August 18th, 2005 20:00

PE 2300 wont boot

I have "inherited" a PE 2300. It has the dell backplane for 4 scsi drives. Unfortunately I only have 3 of the drives. When I try to boot the server it finds the dual 400mhz procs and then starts a memory scan.
 
The last thing to show up on the screen is:
 
PowerEdge 2300/400
     Embedded server management firmware revision 5.21
     System backplane is not hot-pluggable
 
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I then get a flashing cursor and nothing more. It just sits on this screen. I eventually get a fault light on the front of the server. It doesnt look like any of the drives are starting up as no lights light up on them.
 
I am not sure if this server got struck by lightning or just needs one small change. Any help you could provide would be great.

Thanks,

Shane

educk

38 Posts

August 21st, 2005 11:00

It never gets to the PERC or Adaptec SCSI controller initialization screen(s)?  Have you tried to add a fourth drive, I wonder if that's why you get that message?

shane5

6 Posts

August 22nd, 2005 14:00

No it doesnt get to the init screen and I would try a 4th drive but unfortunately I dont have one. Do i need to get a terminator or something?

educk

38 Posts

August 23rd, 2005 02:00

No, you shouldn't.  None hot-pluggable...Have you tried removing all but the very first drive?  And if that results in the same issue, pull them all out.  What happens?
 
I need to go look up the 2300...

shane5

6 Posts

August 23rd, 2005 16:00

Yeah, i have tried all of those options with the same results. i am stumped.

speedstep

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August 24th, 2005 17:00

The 4 drive backplane is NOT a PERC setup.

You need the MSDOS drivers for the Adaptec 7890 OEM scsi on a Win98 startup disk.

Its hanging because the boot sector is destroyed or drive 0 is bad.

You need to boot and format the drives.

Try a Knoppix CD and see if any of the drives are still live.

shane5

6 Posts

August 29th, 2005 20:00

Any ideas where I could get those drivers and the win98 startup disk?

educk

38 Posts

August 29th, 2005 23:00

SpeedStep,
 
If Shane removed all the drives and still got the same error, how can it be a bootsector on a drive (that wasn't even present)?

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