RAID 5 Performance - Can realign existing partition?
Hi, Ihmo, qwerty8990's 12-June-09 thread at http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=127761.0, is a good synopsis of how to initially setup RAID 5 for performance. Four years later, I have a related...
View ArticleOPT_12V_PWR_1 power connector on S2600GZ part no.
Hi,we've got a bunch of S2600GZ motherboards. They have 2 4pin 12V power connectors on the board. We have a custom card that needs external 12V, which we can make up ourselves, but we need to know the...
View Articlewhy are there requirements to load previous versions of BIOS for S2600CO...
The update instructions for S2600CP_EFI_BIOS01080003_ME_020107112_BMC_0117r4151_FRUSDR108 indicate the following statements: for BMC: Warning: !!Ensure BMC 01.16 or later is installed in your...
View ArticleIntel Active System Console Email Alerting Issues
Hey everyone, I have quite a few servers that I would like to setup Email Alerting on. They are all on the newest version of ASC (5.0). I know, currently, there isn't a way to test email alerting, as...
View ArticleRS2BL080 raid external enclosure
I Have a RS2BL080 raid controller in my tower case. Current have 5 hard drives attached in raid 5. Just added a sixth. Crammed it into my old floppy drive bay. Out of space. Is there any way to utilize...
View ArticleS5520 poor raid performance
Hello, We have current situationIntel S5520UR with latest raid, bios , uefi updates. Raid is integrated LSI SAS1078 There are 6 Sata x 2 TB HDD with RAID 1(2 TB, WinOS) and raid10(4 TB, Data). At the...
View ArticleRS2BL080 controller and installing larger drives
I Have a RS2BL080 controller with 6 3tb drives in raid 5. Probably not going to do so for a few terabytes yet, but if I wanted to replace all those drives with 4tb drives is that possible And use the...
View ArticleS5000VSA - SEL Error 84F2, unable to update BMC - Board broken?
Dear fellow Intel Users, I had a long, hard look on one of our machines running on the board named above. Since we do not implement IPMI/remote administration solutions my experience w. this features...
View ArticleRS2BL080 RAID 5 expansion
Hello,current setup: RS2BL080 - Supermicro 24port SAS backplane and 5pcs 2TB HDD. All HDDs are configured as RAID5. Now I would like to expand my drive group with additional 4pcs 2TB HDDs. Before I...
View ArticleHow to reset BIOS to defaults on Intel 2U R2308GZ4GC
I have disabled USB ports in BIOS on my R2308GZ4GC and now I have problems with my keyboard support in my RMM4, when using JViewer. I suspect the keyboard stopped working just because of that...
View ArticleRS2WC40 - Windows fails after BIOS Update
Hi, everybody: I was getting intermittant failure messages using an RS2WC040 card. The Intel RAID Web2 administration software gave me a Controller 0 failed and was reset error, but the system booted...
View ArticleSoftware RAID on srcs28x in arch linux
Hello I have a server with a RAID controller srcs28x. I need to configure the software RAID (not hardware).When loading click ctrl G. Delete all logical drives. The remaining 12 physical drives on two...
View ArticleUpdating BIOS, BMC, ME with Linux flashupdt error - BMC Firmware is already...
I was trying to update via Linux using flashupdt command server's BIOS/BMC/ME and etc. For some reason I always get an error in return: Error BMC Firmware is already in Transfer Mode. Cannot start the...
View ArticleModular Server MFSYS25 Firmware update fails
Hello, We have a modular server with firmware 2.6 We are trying to upgrade to 2.7 and then onto 6.10 I have downloaded numerous copies of 2.7 and have tried to upload them via the web interface of the...
View ArticleUnknown SAS Controller in Win 2008 for S2600GZ
I have a new Intel R2312GZ4GCSAS server system with the optional RES2SV240 RAID expander card installed.This system comes with the RMS25CB080 hardware RAID module pre-installed. When installing Windows...
View ArticleS5000PSLSASR serverboard.
I have a S5000PSLSASR serverboard. Can I use the AXX4DRV3GEXP and AXX6DRV3GEXP at the same time since there are 4 SAS ports? Thanks, Ray
View ArticleNeed motherboard, preferable ATX, that support Memory Mapped I/O beyond 4G
Hi, I'm working on a card that support (can be enabled) BAR2 space of 4, 8, or 16GB. I've been having a horrible time getting it to work in a few AMD systems that were forced upon me. I would like to...
View ArticleMFSYS25V2 firmware 10.16 upload problems
We're having a bit of an issue upgrading MFSYS25V2 to 10.16 (currently 10.9). The problems are with the upload of the new firmware to the chassis itself, rather than the later stages of the update...
View ArticleIntel 5400 with ESB2 and Server 2012
Hi, I have an older SuperMicro server with Xeon Quadcore, 5400 (seaburg) chipset and ESB2 controller and I would like to install Windows Server 2012. I don't find any specific server 2012...
View ArticleS1200BTL doesn't show anything on screen
Hi I just bought a Intel S1200BTL board with a Intel Xeon E3 1220V2 cpu.I've connected both the 24 and the 8 pins power cables.When I hit the power button it apparently starts up as it suppose to, but...
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