Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 50, Issue 8

[Michael_Christensen2 at Dell.com]

   2. After disk upgrade linux stopped booting (Eduardo Sanchez)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:37:26 -0600
From: "Eduardo Sanchez" <ejsanchez at gmail.com>
Subject: After disk upgrade linux stopped booting
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
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Hi!,
  At my office I have a PowerEdge 1400SC, at the time I bought it came
with a 3 disks RAID-5. It worked ok, but now we are trying to add one
IDE disk(as the server motherboard came with an optional IDE port).
So... after we connected the disk, the server couldn't boot...
obvious, there's no OS installed on the new disk. If I disconnect the
IDE disk, the machine can boot again. I tried to find some
configuration on the BIOS about this but didn't find anything helpful.

any advice?

thanks in advance,
regards,

--
eduardo s.m.



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Hi Eduardo,

There are multiple revisions of the 1400SC motherboard and you seem to
have one of the older ones, that do not support IDE HDD's

//Michael


*******snip******
On October 4, 2001
In this respin the following changes will be made to the PowerEdge
1400SC: 

Respinning the motherboard for faster versions of the Pentium III
product family 
933MHz Cu-T and D0 processor stepping and support for mixed processor
stepping 
1.0GHz Cu-T and D0 processor stepping and support for mixed processor
stepping 
1.13GHz, 1.26GHz Tualatin Processor support 
Updating the BIOS to support mixing of Coppermine and Coppermine-T
processors (as well as D0 stepping level Pentium III processors utilized
in desktop environments) 
Providing BIOS support for Tualatin based processors 
Updating the front chassis bezel to incorporate a design similar to that
of the next-generation SC-series servers (PE 500SC, PE1500SC) 
The addition of a second IDE connector to the planar from the existing
IDE channel for added IDE device support including IDE hard drives. 
The addition of lower cost 1-1-1 and 1-1-L service warranties 
Release of 73GB 1" SCSI hard drives 
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