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MD1000 - PERC 6/E Adapter - Maximum RAID group

I can not find information on the maximum RAID that PERC 6 / E Adapter can handle. We already have 2 RAID 5 of 5 HDD SAS, can I still add 5 HDD in RAID 5 (which will go up to 3 RAID 5 on the controller)? Without performance problem? the…
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Raid drives continue to fail perc 6

SERVER: Dell T410 Raid Controller: Perc 6/i What is the best way to diagnose root cause of failed drives? Back story: So I had a 4-drive Raid 10 + 1 hot spare setup. This setup worked for years, about 3 months ago, one drive died, and the hot spare…
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Why can't I create a Disk Group for a specific disk in PERC 6?

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with a PERC 6 RAID Controller that needed some attention yesterday due to vmware ESXi first telling me it lost connection to one disk, then logging it lost connection to all four disks finally gaining connectivity…
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Raid 5-Disk Faulty

I have the following Raid-5 Configuration with one disk faulty. http://i62.tinypic.com/2z6rxck.png I need to do a swap out. Not sure with the current configuration if it will affect the other disks, or can I just do a swap out and nothing will be…
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Dell PowerEdge 2950 PERC 6/i not recognising any drives

I've just recieved a second hand PowerEdge 2950 with a PERC 6/i raid controller and the sata disks that used to be in the machine. However when I power up the machine the controler will not see the physical disks at all. (ie, in the configutil, no…
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Cloning old RHEL 4.3 on Dell Poweredge 2850 to PE2950 with SAS PERC6i

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a PERC 4 controller and SCSI drives. I need to clone that to a PE2950 with a PERC6i with SAS drives. I've used the DKMS package along with the latest driver on Dells website to create a driver disk and…
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Dell Perc 6i with FreeBSD 8.1 errors with mfi0: COMMAND xxxxxxxx TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS

We've recently bought two Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Perc 6i controllers and 6x 135GB SAS Drives. We'd done some pretty extensive testing on a Dell PowerEdge R510 server with a Perc 6i and 4x 135GB SAS Drives running FreeBSD 8.1 for it's…
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perc 6/i monitoring with megacli on non dell mobo

I currently have a perc 6/i sitting in my GA-G41M-ES2L running ubuntu server 10.04. While I am able to use my array, and everything works fine, I am unable to use megacli to get monitoring output. I've tried CentOS and openSUSE and nothing works. I…
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Dell PERC 6/i RAID Performance Testing

We recently received a new Dell R710 with a PERC 6/i RAID controller and six 15k SAS drives. I have been doing some performance testing using hdparm and seeker on two different configurations and I'm not quite sure what to make of the…
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Can I move a one drive RAID 0 array on a PERC 6 to another server?

We have a Dell Poweredge 2970 with a PERC 6/i RAID controller. We have a one drive RAID 0 array (we wanted to add the drive as a JBOD but the PERC forces you to create an array to access it from the PERC). Can we take the one drive RAID 0 and move…
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Centos 7 - replace Perc 6i with H700

I've installed Centos 7 using a Dell Perc 6i using 1TB drives. I'm interested in replacing the 6i with a H700 to be able to use larger drives. I am looking to understand the process so that I can make a decision about whether or not to do this. I…
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upgrade windows server from 2003 to 2008

My PowerEdge 2900 server currently is a windows server 2003 thats configured as a RAID 5 Using PERC 6/i Integrated with 3 750GB Disks. Whats the best way or, the order of steps to upgrade it to windows server 2008 R2 with RAID 1+0 Using PERC 6/i…
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PERC 6/i will not find my SATA drives

I got a PERC 6/i for our build-system machine running ESXi 5.0update1. The hardware is a MSI X79A-GD65 with Intel X79 chipset, Extreme i7 CPU. I also got a SFF8484->4xSATA cable and connected it to 4 SATA drives (WD10EARX), but I can't get the…
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