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 solve a lot of problems....
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. <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....
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?
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