Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:02:35 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: "Mike Galvez" <galvez@virginia.edu> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ? Message-ID: <70e8236f0606261002k21af4765o330e9c8bfdf8c0eb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060626154845.GE264@d-137-145-35.bootp.virginia.edu> References: <449FF5B3.40004@mac.com> <200606261524.k5QFOseV010228@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060626154845.GE264@d-137-145-35.bootp.virginia.edu>
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On 6/26/06, Mike Galvez <galvez@virginia.edu> wrote: > > My problem was with my backup server being FreeBSD and running AMANDA. The Powervault > autoloader was generating SCSI errors. After I setup AMANDA on Linux and got the same > errors, they were willing to replace the Powervault autoloader. > > With the new autoloader in place, I replaced the Linux OS with the same instance of FreeBSD > I was using before. No more SCSI errors. > > All of this took more time than it should have. I can't start to tell you the time I and another collegue wasted with Dell Support (we're talking Gold Queue here) on a Powervault PV660T. Logs here, logs there, exercise this, reflash that... I think the damn thing must have been replaced part by part about 2 times, excluding the chassi! And having to reboot a bunch of (Windows) clusters because of the PV was the icing on the cake! This coating was perfomed many times.... At a certain point in time we upgraded the PV from 4 to 6 loaders. It took Dell 3 wrong scsi cables to finally send the right one. -- Joao Barros
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