The problem is that in my city it`s imposible tu find this drives... All the SATA are SATA II and they don`t sell HDD SATA II any more in my city and my enterprise don`t buy anything by internet.
So do anybody knows if two mirrowed HDs SATA III will work with the RAID SATA controller Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II of my S5520HC mother board that in theory only SATA II ?
Thank you for the help!!
I've seen similar issue with old ESRT2 driver. Considering the driver included in the IDA might not be the latest version, you may try to load the latest driver during installation: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22120
Also, check Memory and Hardware Compatibility and see if you HDDs are in the list.
Kind of strange, isn't it? I do have a good backup, so I guess I'll try to replace drive 0.
Yes it's strange... Does the Logical tab display correct information?
No, it doesn't list any drives at all.
Ok, I saw that you have SATA III drives in the list, but it´s impossible to buy this specific drives from my small city, and like I told you my entermprise don´t buy by internet.
The most similar drive that I can buy here is a Seagate ST500DM002 500Gbs, 7200rpm, SATA III
(I will buy 2 for the RAID 1)
So, do you know if two mirrowed HDs SATA III (don´t listed in the 'Tested memory and hardware list') will work with the RAID SATA controller Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II of my S5520HC mother board that in theory only SATA II ?
Thank again!!
Hello all: We have a server running an SRCSAS18E board(or its onboard,not sure)
We had our boot drive mirror fail. I am going to be swapping out the failed drive in hopes that it will rebuild.
My actual question is related to some of the other drives in the server 2 of the 6 working drive lights are solid green while the others flash normally. i'm not sure if the solid green started after the drive failure or not.
Any ideas as to what the solid drive lights mean? they are both solid green which is better than Red. The server has not been rebooted.
Frank
Daniel -
If you check Ctrl-Alt-Del and look under Processes, and sort by CPU, then start the file copy - what process is at the top of the list, using most of the processor cycles?
I can't think of anything RAID-related that would cause those kinds of speed, without also slowing everything down to a crawl - it would take half an hour just to boot Windows, at those speeds.
Can you copy a file to the same folder without any slowdown?
Rusty -
you are correct, if you know the size it used to be, you can probably recreate it without losing data. i don't see any way to find out how close to 500GB the original array is, though. All the online documentation refers to already knowing the exact size - nothing shows how to find it if that information isn't around anymore.
Not on the list means I can't tell you weather it will work or not, you need to test on your own. Ideally SATA III disks should work on SATA II ports, but it's highly recommended to use enterprise class hard drives in server environment. See Enterprise-class versus desktop-class hard drives comparison white paper.
It may depend on your chassis and HDD backplane. In Intel chassis, solid green could mean drive powered on but no activity.
I have a remote server running an S1200BTS board. I'm getting some odd problems, which I think may be BIOS related. How can I get the current BIOS version remotely through Windows Server 2008, and can I update the BIOS remotely through Windows, or do I need to send someone onsite to do it?
Thanks.
Yes there is a tool called "Intel® One Boot Flash Update utility" (OFU), which allows you to update BIOS in Windows or Linux. It's included in the BIOS and Firmware Update, Configuration Utilities for Windows*/Linux*/WinPE/UEFI.
However the problem is the BIOS/Firmware package for OFU is not the latest yet... If you use OFU, you can update to BIOS 35. If you want to update to latest version 41, you'll have to use EFI package.
I'll check if the OFU update package will be released soon.
Hi,
My customer would like to notify hardware events by using Intel Active System Console(ASC).
He configured [Configuration] - [Basic Email] and [Advanced Email] in ASC.
And he tested notify the event removing power supply unit(lost PS redundancy).
However an appliance did not send notfication email to the customer.
Another appliance late and sent the email.
The customer has two question about ASC.
Q1. How often does ASC watch hardware?
I got some logs from appliance which stored under /var/log/asc/.
services.log recorded the following event.
Thu Jul 25 19:15:01 JST 2013 :- Sanity check on required ASC services ---
ascpolicy : DEAD
Restarting ascpolicy...
Thu Jul 25 19:18:01 JST 2013 :- Sanity check on required ASC services ---
ascpolicy : OK
It seems to check ASC services everey 3 minutes. Is it interval of checking for system status?
If not, how often frequency is it?
Q2. How the customer can solve or investigate the issue?
The customer wants to solve the problem that an email is not transmitted when the hardware issue is occured.
I don't know what kind of information we should collect to investigate trouble of ASC.
The customer captured tcpdump while he is testing but any smtp packets did not tranmitted when he removed power supply unit.
I already got some logs from under /var/log/asc/. If any other step to investigate this issue please let me know.
Thanks and Regards,
Ryosuke Kanaya
McAfee Japan
Sr Technical Support Engineer, Contents Security Support
I tried the following test in my testing environment.
1) Configure [Advanced Email] - [All critical Events]
2) Disconnect power supply cable of PSU1.
3) Waiting for recieve the email notification with monitor smtp server's queue.
4) Connect the cable.
5) Repeat step 2) - 4) several times while watching my smtp server.
Notification Email seems to be sent every 5 minutes.
I think that ASC checks hardware events every 5 minutes. And if an event happened between the check intervals, ASC sends it by an email.
Am I correct?
Thanks and Regards,
Ryosuke
Is there a way I can check the current BIOS level from Windows?
Yes you can do it using the OFU utility:
flashupdt -i
-i : Displays the current BIOS, BMC, and SDR versions of the system.
This option can also be used in conjunction with -u to display
the version information contained in the update package files.
Thanks for all your help.
When I run the flashupdt -i I get the BIOS information, but when I run
flashupdt.exe -u flashupdt.cfg I get the following error
One Boot Flash Update Utility Version 11.0 Build 11
Copyright (c) 2012 Intel Corporation
Invalid input in file '.\flashupdt.cfg' at line 25:
Error : Invalid command specified in the CFG file. Command not supported.
The line 25 that's having problems appears to be
| FWDNAME "BMC_01.13.2825.bin" filetype=fwimg |
Here's the entire CFG file:
//****************************************************************************
//
// Intel Corporation
// Jones Farm, Hillsboro, Oregon
// (503) 696-8080
//
// Intel Corporation Proprietary Information
// Copyright (c) 2008 Intel Corporation, All Rights Reserved
//****************************************************************************
//
// One Boot Flash Update Package for S1200BT
//
CONFIGURATION "XXX" "S1200BTL:S1200BTS,2.0"
// Check for BMC & BIOS dependencies
PROBE BIOSVER "20+"
FOUND "BIOSOK" "BIOSNOTOK"
IFSET "BIOSOK"
FWDNAME "BMC_01.13.2825.bin" filetype=fwimg
CFGNAME "MASTER.CFG"
BIOSNAME "BTP_035.cap"
IMENAME "ME_02_02_00_036_LC.cap"
ELSE
IFSET BIOSNOTOK
DISPLAY "ERROR: Current BIOS is not compatible to be updated to this package!"
ENDIF
ENDIF //BMC & BIOS CHECK
// End of configuration file
How can I fix this?
Can you try to extract the firmware package to a different folder and give the complete path in the command? For example, extract the firmware to C:\Temp, and run:
flashupdt -u C:\Temp\flashupdt.cfg
Here is the link to the latest OFU BIOS/FW package. It was uploaded several months back, but somehow it doesn't show up in the download list:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22574