-----Original Message----- From: m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 15:19 To: CentOS mailing list
Jason Pyeron wrote:
From: m.roth@5-cent.us Jason Pyeron wrote:
From: Jason Pyeron
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing from spinning drives to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath.
Dumb question: these machines are getting very long in the tooth, but you're putting SSD's in them? New, or newer machines, would
32GB SSD for the boot device, not on the raid arrays.
solve a lot of problems....
Their warrantees are good for another few years... And the money is not :)
is the SATA interface in AHCI mode or legacy IDE emulation?
Good question, I will ask Dell. The BIOS only has Off and Auto as choices. Is there a preference I should shoot for?
So the dell tech says it only supports ATA (IDE) mode.
[Sorry for the
accidental forward]
Now I have to find an alternative to supporting a SSD boot device on a SATA port in IDE (ATA) mode.
Ok, I see - it's an old 2970 - I see the manuals on Dell's site were last revised in 2011. We got rid of all our
2950's (except for
one, I think, or two, and they're another team's). IIRC,
they did have a
choice of AHCI or RAID, and I think there may have been
one other option.
Unless this is
I think that is on the PERC contoller. The Onboard SATA A/B
ports are the
issue.
Nope. That's the kind of stuff that's only in the BIOS - it's certainly not on a PERC.
Will go over it again with a fine tooth comb.
<snip> > We have some with 40 pin IDE, but I am ignoring them.
And to that I have one response: MTBF. You need to talk to management about spending some money....
Step 1. Make more money. Step 2. Replace 40 of them when the support contract expires.
Both IDE and SATA mother boards have the same BIOS version!?!?!
Presumably from when the switchover was happening.
Hmmmm... have you spoken to Dell, or looked on their website, for a firmware update for the BIOS?
Running the latest BIOS.
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