RE: afacli diagnostic boot params

Search dell's support site for d4935552.exe (those 5's might be S's, my
hand writing sucks) and CDENABV2.exe   you use them to boot off of a
floppy, and it has diagnostic programs and one of them can download the
log from the card.  I know these disks work for megaraid cards (yes I know
this is the aacraid list) but I think they work with aacraid cards as
well.

			Adam

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Campbell, Kelly wrote:

> I think the 4600 PERC3/Di is an on-board raid. In other words they'd
> have to send us a whole new mother board. :-( And there's no guarantee
> that will fix it. I'd like to have more information to narrow the
> problem down if it's available. I'm not trying to bash Dell tech
> support, but so far the tech's I've talked to haven't been much help. I
> asked the one I talked to today about the diagnostic boot params and
> getting more detailed output from the controller and he didn't think
> that was possible. The one I talked to Friday didn't understand why we
> have the backplane split to distribute load across two scsi busses
> instead of having all 8 disks on one bus. I figured someone here must
> know what boot params the aacraid controllers can take to spit out
> debugging information that might clue me or tech support in to which
> component is failing.
>
> -Kelly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Williams [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:12 PM
> To: Campbell, Kelly
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: afacli diagnostic boot params
>
>
> Ask dell tech support to send you a new raid card.  We had a Perc2/SC go
> bad (its a megaraid card and not aacraid tho) and it would lock up
> randomly, sometimes not post, print weird errors on tty1, etc...Just ask
> the tech, usually they'll send you one without any problems.
>
> 			Adam
>
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