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Server Guys ! Quick help needed !
- Thread starter KDF
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Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Can be a bit iffy this one. The only ones I've personally come across are the larger 80-pin drives, but I'm led to believe that these are falling behind the times now, in favour of the 68-pin version. What I don't understand about this though, is the fact that the 68-pin drive comes with an additional power coupling. Surely that defeats the whole idea of the Single Connector Attachment idea? :S
Does the SCA drive slot straight onto the rear of the drive cage, or is it connected via cable? I'd be surprised if it was a cable, but as I've never bought a Dell server, so I couldn't really say. The HP Proliant ones we use; have prodominantly been the 80-pin slot - straight onto the rear of the drive backplane.
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Does the SCA drive slot straight onto the rear of the drive cage, or is it connected via cable? I'd be surprised if it was a cable, but as I've never bought a Dell server, so I couldn't really say. The HP Proliant ones we use; have prodominantly been the 80-pin slot - straight onto the rear of the drive backplane.
D.
Audi TT Stronic
Cheers anyway.
Ye, I know its really bugging me lol ! I do try and find these things out for myself before posting.. but all I could get was SCA2 was a revision of SCA because there were some problems with the design of SCA... no mention of backward compatibility :S
The Server is slightly older so is using the 80pin SCA. The SCA on the drive connects directly to the backplane. The drives are held in a quick release caddy as they are hot-pluggable.
Well I have 2 80pin 15k SCA2 Cheetah's on the way and will be here by noon tommorow so I will be sure to post back the results. If the drives work I will be rebuilding the array with a spare so this doesn't happen again.
KDF said:
pmsl.
You should have seen the smoke and the top fly off a chip the other week when my boss accidentally connected a high current 12V supply to a 5V rail......
nothing..nothing...bang...tio of chipi flying across the room...smoke..smell...whoops.
Theres a lot to be said to plugging things in without making smoke & fire!
Make sure you've got your extra can of tennants super ready...just in case
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Audi TT Stronic
Knowsit !!
The arse of it is the 6th drive bay only had a blanking plate style caddy on it so until Dell deliver me a new caddy I can't install the spare drive into the RAID array.
The other problem with RAID arrays is normally all the drives will have been bought at the same time and used for the same amount of time, meaning if one drive goes its a good sign the others may be on there way out !
The arse of it is the 6th drive bay only had a blanking plate style caddy on it so until Dell deliver me a new caddy I can't install the spare drive into the RAID array.
The other problem with RAID arrays is normally all the drives will have been bought at the same time and used for the same amount of time, meaning if one drive goes its a good sign the others may be on there way out !
server people are geeks
network guys are much cooler
I'm both. That makes me uber cool
Can't believe we didn't even have a bit of smoke.. haha.
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
server people are geeks
network guys are much cooler
I'm both. That makes me uber cool
Can't believe we didn't even have a bit of smoke.. haha.
Hang on. If the network guys are cool and the server mob are geeks...... and you're both - surely that means that they cancel each other out? In which case, you're a nothing?? :clown:
D.
not sure why i've not come across this sca before, is thisd something dell use in their terminology/literature as i've never heard it from HP, but then HP have had about 3 different designs of drive over the past 10 or so years, dell just make whatever they can at the time and whats cheapest, not really much commonality really from what i see, when i have a hp drive go its very easy to get the right drive quickly, but then this wouldn't have happened on any of our hp servers as we have pre-failure warranty on them so before they even fail we get a new one turn up and can replace it before it even fails, now thats service!
pmsl.
You should have seen the smoke and the top fly off a chip the other week when my boss accidentally connected a high current 12V supply to a 5V rail......
nothing..nothing...bang...tio of chipi flying across the room...smoke..smell...whoops.
Theres a lot to be said to plugging things in without making smoke & fire!
Make sure you've got your extra can of tennants super ready...just in case
See, that's the sort of technology and fun I'm talking about!
Nah. Coolness++
Haha. Indeed.
I'm bring Hilfiger back.. seriously..
Hilfiger + servers + networking == not sure, but it's awesome.
It's very common.. HP do sell some SCA stuff.
Audi TT Stronic
Well the raid rebuilt just fine..
Speaking of geek.. hows this ?
One of my VM needed its primary disk expanded as it was running out of space, now the VM Server is linux (obviously) with a Win2k3 guest OS.
I did the drive expansion but in order to get stupid windows to recognise the bigger drive I had to
ssh into the linux box and start a vnc session.. through that vnc session on the linux box I had to boot the virtual windows 2k3 system but telling it to boot from a virtually mounted ubuntu live ISO so I could run gparted to expand the virtual NTFS drive on the virtual 2k3 install !
Speaking of geek.. hows this ?
One of my VM needed its primary disk expanded as it was running out of space, now the VM Server is linux (obviously) with a Win2k3 guest OS.
I did the drive expansion but in order to get stupid windows to recognise the bigger drive I had to
ssh into the linux box and start a vnc session.. through that vnc session on the linux box I had to boot the virtual windows 2k3 system but telling it to boot from a virtually mounted ubuntu live ISO so I could run gparted to expand the virtual NTFS drive on the virtual 2k3 install !
funnily enough i too was doing this silly comman line stuff in vmware today, need to open firewall ports for my hp management agents to run so had to ssh into the server and register a few ports to be open and restart a few services, GUI FTW!Well the raid rebuilt just fine..
Speaking of geek.. hows this ?
One of my VM needed its primary disk expanded as it was running out of space, now the VM Server is linux (obviously) with a Win2k3 guest OS.
I did the drive expansion but in order to get stupid windows to recognise the bigger drive I had to
ssh into the linux box and start a vnc session.. through that vnc session on the linux box I had to boot the virtual windows 2k3 system but telling it to boot from a virtually mounted ubuntu live ISO so I could run gparted to expand the virtual NTFS drive on the virtual 2k3 install !
couldn't you just diskpart the windows client once you had increased the virtual disk? not tried it myself though, did you add an extent?
i thought win 2008 could grow partitions without diskpart but i had to use it the other day.
Audi TT Stronic
I don't think you can do it in windows..
It was easiest to get linux to fix the downfalls of windows.. it was only running a sametime (domino messaging) system anyway which we were upgrading to version 8. Version 8 also happens to have a shiny new lotus notes client for Linux
It was easiest to get linux to fix the downfalls of windows.. it was only running a sametime (domino messaging) system anyway which we were upgrading to version 8. Version 8 also happens to have a shiny new lotus notes client for Linux
