PE 4600

[Adam Williams]

Yeah I had a similar problem with my PE2500 (perc3/di aacraid card).  It 
would throw random errors anywhere from 1-7 days and you'd have to hard 
reboot it.  Contacted dell's tech support and they had me run that 
br61011.exe from the ftp site a million times but never gave a problem 
on that utility.  Eventually threw in the towel and purchased a PERC3/DC 
like in our PE2400 and its been great with that card.

Mark Cuss wrote:

>Hi Adam
>
>I have a PE4600 running RedHat 8 - it holds 8 hot swap hard drives in total,
>and I think you can get a kit to install 2 more in the media bay, but I'm
>not sure.
>
>My PE4600 just has the basic onboard Adaptec SCSI controller (no RAID), and
>it has given a lot of problems - it likes to throw parity errors on the PCI
>bus and cause filesystem problems, etc.  I ended up disabling the on board
>SCSI and installing an Adaptec 29160 card and cabling it to the SCSI
>backplane...  This has been running for a few weeks without a hitch.
>
>Thanks
>Mark
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Adam Williams" <awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us>
>To: <Linux-Poweredge at dell.com>
>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:38 PM
>Subject: PE 4600
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>>Hi, can someone give me a little info on a PE 4600?  How many SCSI hard
>>drives can it support in its raid cage?  Also, doesnt' it have an
>>onboard adaptec/aacraid RAID card?  Can I disable it and use a
>>PERC4/DC(megaraid)  with its RAID array, or are they not compatible.  I
>>disabled the aacraid card in my PE 2500 and am using a PERC4/DC in it,
>>so I don't see why it wouldn't work.  Could a PERC3/SC also be used with
>>a PE 4600's raid since its a little cheaper?
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