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david_abowitt
17 years agoLevel 4
Case 2119564
I contacted Dell and verified that the Dell download R-149460 was the correct driver for the SAS Harddrives and the PERC 5/I controller on the PowerEdge 2950. I indicated, I think, that after first failure, I went back in to the Load Driver portion of the software and loaded the Perc Drivers .SYS file and BESR indicates driver loaded succesfully. So for all intent and purposes BESR now has loaded the correct driver for this server and should see the controller.
Regarding Bare metal, say I had an HP server crash and my only available server is a Dell and I want to load my HP image on a Dell server I should be able to under the Bare Metal Restore concept.
I also contacted Dell regarding a comment by a Symantec Tech support about a controller issue because I ran the SMEDUMP and they indicated the following:
From PartInfo:
WARNING: Invalid End CHS values in partition above.
WARNING: Begin CHS does not match start sector LBA in partition above.
WARNING: End CHS does not match calculated end LBA in partition above.
I had further discussions with Dell Gold Enterprise Support and they have never heard of this error and indicated that their system was seeing the drives through the Bios on bootup.
Hope this helps
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