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...
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...
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...