Converting a PE 2550 from SCSI to SATA

[John_O_Todd at Dell.com]

Rick

 

That system was never meant for anything but SCSI. There is no way to
have it work without the backplane and attached daughtercard.

 

John Todd

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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Rick Prendergast
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:06 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Converting a PE 2550 from SCSI to SATA

 

Hello,

I am trying to convert an old PE 2550 to SATA so I can get more disk and
not pay SCSI prices.  In order to make room to be able to plug in the
drives I had to remove the SCSI back plane.  The server didn't really
like that too much:

!!*****Invalid SCSI configuration, primary daughtercard not
detected*****

!!*****System halted!*****

 

Is there a way to get around this?   A utility to allow mw to change the
config?  Or some jumpers I can set??

 

Thanks, 

 

Rick 

 

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