Dell PowerEdge 2900 Support Question
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Question posted by Anonymous-77497 on October 4th, 2012
Unplug Internal Tape Drive
i am trouble shooting an internal tape drive on a dell pe 2950. the server is working fine but the tape drive's lights are blinking. i would like to just recycle the power on the tape drive to see if the reboot fixes it without taking down my users. can i do that? thanks for your help
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Related Dell PowerEdge 2900 Manual Pages
Installing a SATA Optical Drive - Page 3
...Installing a SATA Optical Drive
3 Installing a SATA Optical Drive
These instructions apply to Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems to remove... bay and remove the optical drive from the back of the optical drive.
6 PowerEdge 2900 and 1900 systems only: Perform...IDE optical drive is being replaced by a SATA optical drive. See your Hardware Owner's Manual.
5 Disconnect the data and power cables from...
Installing a SATA Optical Drive - Page 4
PowerEdge 2970, 2950, and 1950
For PowerEdge 2970 and 2950 systems, the optical drive tray that shipped with the SATA drive installation kit. The PowerEdge 2900 and 1900 systems do not reuse the interposer board attached to the old drive.
1 Pull outward on the interposer board release tab at the back of the tray. See Figure 1-1.
2 Pull the interposer board...
Installing a SATA Optical Drive - Page 9
... Owner's Manual.
11 Reconnect the system to the power supply as follows:
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9 Replace the cooling shroud. See "Closing the System" in your Hardware Owner's Manual.
10 Close the system. For a PowerEdge 2900, use the SATA_D connector. Installing the SATA Optical Drive - See Figure 1-5.
- See Figure 1-5.
- For a PowerEdge 1900 system, connect to the SATA connector on...
Installing a SATA Optical Drive - Page 10
See "Closing the System" in a PowerEdge 2900 or 1900
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1 optical drive 3 SATA data cable 5 SATA power connector on SAS
backplane (PowerEdge 2900 only)
2 SATA power cable 4 SATA connector on the system and attached peripherals.
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Installing a SATA Optical Drive SATA Cable Routing in your Hardware Owner's Manual.
10 Reconnect the system to power and turn on system board
8 ...
Getting Started Guide - Page 5
... Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or SATA hard drives (eight 3.5-inch internal hard drives with hot-pluggable backplane board, and support for two additional hot-pluggable 3.5-inch drives in a 1 + 1 redundant configuration.
• Six hot-pluggable system cooling fans. To take advantage of the Intel Xeon processor will work properly as the instructions for performing the upgrade...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 7
... Memory 124 Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive 126 Troubleshooting an Optical Drive 127 Troubleshooting an External SCSI Tape Drive 128 Troubleshooting a Hard Drive 129 Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card 130 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards 131 Troubleshooting the Microprocessors 133
5 Running the System Diagnostics
Using Server Administrator Diagnostics 135 System...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 72
... a SCSI chain be attached to the CD/TBU power connector on the SCSI bus. NOTE: For a full-height tape backup unit, you received with the device.
17 Perform a tape backup and verification test with the drive as instructed in the drive kit, install the card now. 4 Unpack the tape drive (and controller card, if applicable) and configure...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 96
...the battery from the SAS RAID controller daughter card by sliding the battery up your system's internal hard drives.
NOTE: The non-RAID SAS controller daughter card supports a maximum of the SAS_B connector ...on the flex bay backplane board.
7 Connect the power cable to the flex bay backplane board (see Figure 3-26) and to the power connector on the 1x8 backplane board (see the documentation...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 122
... page 135. 2 Locate the faulty power supply. If the system seems to...Troubleshooting Power Supplies
Problem • System-status indicators are amber. • Power-supply...Server Administrator Diagnostics" on page 77. Troubleshooting the System Battery
Problem • System message indicates a problem with the power supplies. The power...situation is lit. See "Power Indicator Codes" on page...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 128
..., working inside the system. See "Using Server Administrator Diagnostics" on page 147. CAUTION: Only trained service technicians are configured correctly. 3 Reinstall the tape-backup software as instructed in the tape-backup software documentation. 4 Ensure that the tape drive's interface/DC power cable is connected to the tape drive and SCSI controller card. 5 Verify that the tape drive is...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 129
... not resolved, see the documentation for the tape drive for additional troubleshooting instructions.
14 If you cannot resolve the problem, see your controller daughter card are installed and are experiencing problems with the host adapter for information about safety precautions, working inside the system. Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
Problem • Device driver error. • One...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 180
... Dell,...tape drive troubleshooting, 128
troubleshooting CD drive, 127 cooling fans, 123 damaged system, 121 diskette drive, 126 expansion cards, 131 external connections, 116 hard drive, 129 keyboard, 117 memory, 124 microprocessors, 133 mouse, 118
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Index removing (continued) hard drive from a drive carrier, 58 hard drives, 56 memory, 87 optical drive, 73 peripheral bay panel (tower), 52 power...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 181
troubleshooting (continued) NIC, 120 power supplies, 122 SAS RAID controller daughter card, 130 serial I/O device, 119 start-up routine, 115 system battery, 122 system cooling, 123 tape drive, 128 USB device, 119 video, 117 wet system, 120
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USB device troubleshooting, 119
V
video troubleshooting, 117
W
warning messages, 33 warranty, 10 wet system
troubleshooting, 120
Index
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Information Update - Page 3
PowerEdge 2900 II and PowerEdge 2900 III Systems 9
System Board Replacement - New System Features 5 New Performance Features 5 New I/O and Storage Features 5 New Security Features 5
Optional Internal USB Memory Key 6 Installing the Optional Internal USB Memory Key 7
Processor Upgrades - Safeguarding Encrypted Data 9
System Message Update 10
LCD Status Messages Update 14
System Setup ...
Information Update - Page 5
... drive or USB memory key. • Support for iSCSI boot. Information Update
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New System Features
New Performance Features
• Two dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors. This document provides updated information for your system on the following topics: • New system features for PowerEdge™ 2900 III systems • Internal...
Information Update - Page 6
... Screen" on the system board for use the internal USB connector, the Internal USB Port option must be used as a boot device, security key, or mass storage device. To use with a USB flash memory key (see Figure 1-1). Optional Internal USB Memory Key
The PowerEdge 2900 III system provides an internal USB connector located on page 20.
Information Update - Page 9
...contents of the hard drive. Processor Upgrades - Safeguarding Encrypted Data
On PowerEdge 2900 III systems using the TPM with an encryption program, you are using Windows Server® 2008, you...Information Update
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PowerEdge 2900 II and PowerEdge 2900 III Systems
• If the front of your system chassis is labeled with a "III", your hard drive(s). See support.dell.com for information ...
Information Update - Page 23
... information is displayed in /proc/cpuinfo. (The actual processor speed is supported by the PowerEdge 2900 and 2900 II systems, but not by the PowerEdge 2900 III system.
SATA Optical Drive Support on RHEL3 and SLES9
SATA optical drives are supported on the Server OS Install tab. RHEL - This operating system is not affected.)
This behavior will be...
Information Update - Page 48
Microsoft Windows 2000
System Build and Update Utility Microsoft® Windows® 2000 将位于 Server OS Install PowerEdge 2900 和 2900 II PowerEdge 2900 III
Customize Log output file pathname USB
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信息更新
Information Update - Page 160
.../cpu/cpuxx/cpufreq/scaling_ cur_freq
• Intel Xeon 54xx RHEL 버전 3 9 proc/cpuinfo
RHEL 4 Update
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 이 Server OS Install(서버 OS PowerEdge 2900 III 대신 PowerEdge 2900 및 2900 II
USB
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