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Dell poweredge 1850 Disk fail

ONe of my Dell 1850s crashed last night. When I came in this morning the disk light was flashing.
Is there ea tool I can download to check this disk? Are there any poweredge tools that can give me a system diag running on a Windows OS?

Ram Balachandran

You can use this diagonis tool from Dell

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=r132112&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=178687

this supports PowerEdge 1850
Thanks
Ram

wannabecraig

ASKER

That looks like a Linux program

Paul Coffey

It probably is a live linux cd used for diagnostics.

Here is the support link for your server, look under the diagnostics drop down. One of them is poweredge specific.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=2684&l=en&s=pub&os=WNET&osl=en&SystemID=PWE_1850&catid=-1&impid=-1

nobus

i would say - what you use depend son your setup
is it in raid? which raid?
you can diagnose most disk drives with UBCD - but i'm not sure if it works on raid : http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ run the manufacturer's diag

wannabecraig

ASKER

It's RAID-1. When I start it up is says one of the disks is missing and to check the cable.
The warning light also flashes on one of the disks.

However when run a Dell diag' tool it says both are working and ready.

nobus

did you do a poweroff/on? it may need a reset

Paul Coffey

Power off, reseat the drive, power on.

Personally I'd replace that drive even if it comes back to normal.

pravin_abhale11

hi remove the amber lighted hard disk and reinsert it. after that check the same.

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