Event ID 1206 and 1204
Nov17

Event ID 1206 and 1204

KB ID 0000125  Problem Event 1206 and 1204 Solution  Drive Array Accelerator Battery Failed. The array accelerator board attached to the array controller in Slot 3 is reporting a battery failure. and / or Drive Array Accelerator Status Change. The array accelerator board attached to the array controller in Slot 3 has a new status of 4. (Accelerator status values: 1=other, 2=notConfigured, 3=enabled, 4=tmpDisabled, 5=permDisabled) The...

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SBS –  Alert – ‘The following disk has low idle time’
Nov17

SBS – Alert – ‘The following disk has low idle time’

KB ID 0000583  Problem I got this alert forwarded to me, from a client that I’d put in new hard drives for a few week ago. Alert: The following disk has low idle time, which may cause slow response time when reading or writing files to the disk. Disk: {Number} {Drive Letter}: Review the Disk Transfers/sec and % Idle Time counters for the PhysicalDisk performance object. If the Disk Transfers/sec counter is consistently below 150...

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Dell PowerEdge – PERC RAID Card Importing / Using ‘Foreign’ Disks
Nov17

Dell PowerEdge – PERC RAID Card Importing / Using ‘Foreign’ Disks

KB ID 0000639  Problem I bought some SAS disks from eBay to go in my Power Edge 2900 Server, and scratched my head for a while trying to get the PERC RAID controller to use them. I could only see them marked as ‘Foreign’. Probably because they did not have their original config ‘wiped’ off them before I bought them. Solution 1. Boot the server, Press CTRL+R when prompted, then press ‘C’ to enter the...

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