DELL PE 1650 ERA/O not available anymore

[Joost Waversveld]

Ok, the server just crashed and we had to send someone to power cycle 
the server manually :-D The server came up again, but the ERA did not.

Joost Waversveld wrote:
> I already tried that, but if I download the Firmware update for the ERA 
> (linux bin-file) and try to install that one, I get the error that the 
> ERA card can not be established. I'm not at the server location (40 
> minutes drive), so I can not try to install it through an floppy right now.
> 
> 
> Christian Frank wrote:
>> Hi Joost,
>>
>> AFAIK, your perc AND your ERA need actual firmware releases.
>> So, try to update the firmware of the era to the newest version also.
>> A dell supporter told me e.g  that you can run into troubles if your 
>> system bios is actual
>> and your era bios is not.
>>
>> So, maybe upgrading the era firmware solves your problem ..
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Joost Waversveld schrieb:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>>
>>> We've got an PE 1650 running CentOS 4.3. The system sometimes hangs 
>>> because of very high loads.
>>>
>>> I checked the OpenManage of the server and I noticed that the firmware 
>>> version of the DELL Perc 3/Di was out of date (2.7.x). I updated the 
>>> firmware to V2.8.1 built 6098, all went well. To complete the 
>>> installation of the firmware I needed to reboot the server. After the 
>>> reboot, the server came back online, but now the ERA/O module isn't 
>>> responding anymore. Through OpenManage I noticed that the SCSI 
>>> Controllers on "PCI Bus 2" were removed according to the "diagnostics 
>>> -> Hardware changes". The ERA/O module is still being mentioned here.
>>>
>>> We really need the ERA/O module to reboot this machine. What can we do 
>>> about this? I tried to (soft)reboot the server again, but this didn't 
>>> solve the problem. Is it possible that an "server power cycle" solves 
>>> our problem? Or can we downgrade the firmware? Please let me know!
>>>
>>> Greets,
>>>
>>> Joost Waversveld
>>>
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