Dell PowerEdge 2950 Support Question
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Question posted by flordiabl on May 3rd, 2014
How To Change Raid Controller Battery On Pe 2950
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Getting Started Guide - Page 6
... and one half-length PCIe x8 lane slot.
• Dedicated slot for an integrated SAS host bus adapter or an optional RAID controller card with 256 MB of cache memory and a RAID battery. This video subsystem contains 16 MB of DDR SDRAM video memory (nonupgradable).
The systems management circuitry works in conjunction with the...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 5
...68 Removing the Fan Bracket 68 Replacing the Fan Bracket 69
SAS Controller Daughter Card 69 Installing a SAS Controller Daughter Card 70 SAS and SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Cabling Guidelines . . . . . 72 Removing a SAS Controller Daughter Card 74
RAID Battery 74 Installing a RAID Battery 74 Removing a RAID Battery 75
Configuring the Boot Device 76
Expansion Cards 76 Expansion Card...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 7
...Troubleshooting the System Battery 118 Troubleshooting Power Supplies 118 Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems 119 Troubleshooting a Fan 119 Troubleshooting System Memory 120 Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive 121 Troubleshooting an Optical Drive 123 Troubleshooting an External SCSI Tape Drive 123 Troubleshooting a Hard Drive 124 Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 34
...
Corrective Actions
Timer chip counter 2 failed
Faulty system board.
No micro code update loaded for information about installing or updating the RAID firmware.
Embedded RAID firmware does not respond.
See the RAID controller documentation for example, 1 DIMM, 6 DIMMs, 4 DIMMs in slots 1, 2, 5, and 6, etc.).
NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 52
Inside the System
4
5
3
6
2
1
14 13
9
10 11 12
7 8
1 RAID battery (optional)
2 SAS controller daughter card 3 sideplane or SAS RAID controller daughter card (optional)
4 power supply bay
5 power supplies (2)
6 left riser
7 central riser
8 memory modules (8)
9 heatsinks and microprocessors (2)
10 hot-pluggable fans (4)
11 SAS backplane
12 ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 53
...at the left end of the bezel. 3 Rotate the left riser accommodates up to a RAID controller card through the SAS backplane board. Table 3-1. For more information, see "System Board Jumpers" on..., see "Optical Drive" on the hard drive configuration you may also be required to change a jumper setting. Several hardware options, such as the microprocessors and memory, are installed ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 56
... fit in some storage systems.
NOTICE: Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is running, see the documentation for the optional SAS RAID controller daughter card to ensure that the host adapter is configured correctly to eject the blank
outward from the system and do not reinstall it is...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 57
When both drive indicators are fully installed. See your SAS RAID controller documentation for removal.
3 Open the drive carrier release handle to ensure correct insertion into the... it is powered down. See "Removing the Front Bezel" on page 53. 2 From the RAID management software, prepare the drive for installing a drive blank depends on page 56. 3 Install the hot-plug hard drive.
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 69
...system and attached peripherals.
The SAS controller daughter card provides the SAS storage subsystem for a SAS controller daughter card. The optional SAS RAID controller daughter card allows you to the ...fan bracket into the two slots on page 66. 5 Close the system. See "Installing a SAS Controller Daughter Card" on
page 70. 4 Replace the fans in power supply cage
2 fan bracket 5...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 70
... two types of the card is shown in the sideplane board.
70
Installing System Components See "Opening the System" on the sideplane board. The SAS RAID controller daughter card is complete.
1 Turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the system from the sideplane board.
See "Removing the...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 72
... all Backplanes
2 1
3 4
1 SAS controller daughter card 2 4 backplane
SAS controller 0
3 SAS backplane A
Figure 3-14. SAS and SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Cabling Guidelines
Figure 3-13. SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Cabling With 3.5-inch x6 Backplane
3 2
1
1 SAS controller 0 4 SAS backplane A
4 5
6
2 SAS RAID controller daughter 3 SAS controller 1 card
5 3.5-inch x6 backplane...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 73
...inch x8 Backplane
3 2
4
1
5
6
1 SAS controller 0 4 SAS controller 1
2 SAS RAID controller daughter 3 SAS backplane A card
5 SAS backplane B
6 2.5-inch x8 backplane
Installing System Components
73 SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Cabling With 3.5-inch x4 Backplane
2 3
1 4 5
1 SAS controller 0 4 SAS backplane A
2 SAS RAID controller daughter 3 SAS controller 1 card
5 3.5-inch x4 backplane...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 75
...two guides holding the RAID battery into the battery carrier, draw out the RAID battery from the battery carrier. Installing a RAID Battery 3 4
2
1
1 chassis battery carrier slot (2) 2 battery cable
4 SAS RAID controller daughter card battery
3 battery carrier
Removing a RAID Battery
1 Disconnect the cable between the RAID battery and the SAS RAID controller daughter card.
Installing System...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 103
...hard drive you remove from which bay.
7 Disconnect the SAS cable(s) and control panel cable from the chassis. See Figure 3-34. See "Removing a SAS Controller Daughter Card" on
page 83. 5 If applicable, disconnect the tape drive...page 105.
8 If applicable, remove the storage controller daughter card.
See "SAS and SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Cabling Guidelines" on page 72 and "Removing the...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 105
... the connector. a Squeeze the metal tabs on page 54. 4 Disconnect the control panel cable at back of the cable connector.
See "SAS and SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card Cabling Guidelines" on page 70.
8 Reattach the SAS controller daughter card cables and the control panel cable. See "Removing and Installing an Internal SCSI Tape
Drive" on...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 125
...RAID SAS controller daughter card, remove the hard drive and swap its drive bay
location with the host adapter for more information. a Restart the system and press to step 8. b Ensure that the required device drivers for your controller daughter card are installed and are configured correctly. See "Using Server...your system has a SAS RAID controller daughter card, perform the ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 126
...their connectors. c Verify that the controller card is
enabled.
See "Closing the System" on page 147. See "Using Server Administrator Diagnostics" on page 131. ... to enter the configuration utility program:
• for a SAS controller • for a SAS RAID controller See the controller's documentation for complete information about configuration settings. 4 Check the configuration...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 127
.... • Expansion card performs incorrectly or not at all.
If the
problem persists, proceed as follows: • If you have a SAS RAID controller daughter card, replace the SAS RAID daughter card battery.
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
NOTE: When troubleshooting an expansion card, see your operating system and the expansion card. Before performing any of the...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 179
... supplies removing, 63 replacing, 64 troubleshooting, 118
power supply blank, 64
processor removing, 93, 95 upgrades, 93
R
RAID battery, 74 installing, 74 removing, 75
RAID controller (integrated) troubleshooting, 126
removing battery, 96 bezel, 53 central riser, 100 control panel assembly, 105 cooling fan, 65 cover, 54 diskette drive, 83 diskette drive from drive carrier, 85 expansion...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 180
...system features accessing, 12
system messages, 28
system password assigning, 45 changing, 47 deleting, 47 using, 45
system password features, 45
system...battery, 118 CD drive, 123 cooling fan, 119 damaged system, 117 diskette drive, 121 expansion cards, 127 external connections, 112 hard drive, 124 keyboard, 113 memory, 120 microprocessors, 128 mouse, 114 NIC, 116 power supplies, 118 RAID controller...
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