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VDs on S1200BTL & Windows 7

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Hello,

 

My end goal is this: Set up RAID 10 on 4 HDDs with Windows 7 Pro.

This is similar to this post, but I'm having trouble implementing the answer.  Here is the situation:

 

System: P4303BTLSHCN

Board: S1200BTL

OS: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit

Drives: Four (4) 2TB hard drives (& one DVD-ROM)

 

Bottom line: How do I finish with Win 7, RAID 10, and 4 TB storage, accessible through Windows?

Sticking points: Windows partition capabilities, RAID restrictions, virtual drive creation/modification . . .

 

More background:

 

The aforementioned post says to make a smaller virtual drive and install Windows on that.  I'm using two utilities in trying to create such a partition, and a third trying to set up RAID:

  1. Intel Embedded RAID II Configuration Utility (Ctrl+E)
  2. GParted Live
  3. Intel Server Board S1200BT Family Server Deployment Toolkit 4.0 (bootable CD G20500-002)

Toolkit CD only offers low-level RAID, so I've mostly been ignoring that.  If I create the partitions in GParted, I don't see any recognition of them in the Configuration Utility.  If I create a virtual drive (tried 25 and 50 GB) in the Configuration Utility, it only allows RAID 0 for the small one, and then restricts the RAID level for the larger drives.  In addition to just making one small partition and having the rest go more or less automatically, I've tried making 8 partitions/VDs (one small & one large on each drive) so as to keep all the same size for RAID, but that doesn't seem to matter.  If I go straight to configuring RAID 10 without any prior divisions, it doesn't allow me to alter the size of the resulting drive. 

 

Earlier in this process I set up RAID 10, installed Windows, and found only 2 TB available (on the C drive, with no other drives visible).  During startup it listed the drives and recognized RAID 10 implemented.  I checked BIOS and Config Utility settings.  The other post appeared to be essentially the same situation, which is why I'm trying to make a boot partition.  I've also tried advanced options on the Windows install, but apparently it can't handle more than 2 TB.  When I did have Windows installed (with all updates), I tried everything I could manage on the Toolkit CD, Intel System Management Software (G10627-002) CD, and driver program available from downloadcenter.intel.com.

 

Fortunately all of the drives are new so I can format them all I want.  For various reasons I'm trying to keep to Windows as the final OS, but I'm happy to use Linux in the process--but I can't claim to be an expert at it.  My tech knowledge is well above average, but everything I know is only what I've (taught myself to be able to get) done.  If you tell me to do some standard operation, if I don't know it I can ask Google.  I just need a direction to look.

 

Thanks very much.


Quadro NVS 440 with Intel Motherboard S1200V3RPS showing garbage during BIOS screen

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Helllo, THis is my first post on the forum. Please help me with the following issue.

 

I am using Graphics card from my old PC on the new Intel server board S1200V3RPS. First I am able to install OpenSuse 13.1 without inserting Quadro graphic card. Then I insert the graphics card and try to start the system. At the time of startup, I see garbage on the two monitors I have connected to the graphics card. Then the linux system loads and the card appears to be working fine and I am able to install legacy drivers for the card on the linux systtem.

 

However, the issue is that I do not have any access to BIOS screen at the time of startup. Please let me know how can I fix this?

Very noisy fan 3 on S2600CW

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When the server is idle all the temperatures on my server are below 45 C. 4 fans are throttled down to 800 RPM, but fan 3 is stuck at 8500 RPM and makes a very high noise. I've already updated BIOS/ME/FRU/SDR and the script correctly detects the chassis (redundant, non-HSBP), but the middle fan remains stuck. The PWM offset is set to 0, the fan profile is Acoustic and the CPU Power and Performance Policy is Balanced Power.

 

Is there anything I can do to improve this?

Cannot Install Memory 4 GB on Motherboard SE7320EP2 version:D11950-401

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Hi, 

 

I have Motherboard SE7320EP2 version:D11950-401. I want to install Memory 4 GB on DIM slot, but the system just read 2 GB, how to solve it.

 

Thanks,

Tisna

S5000PSL no longer booting

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Hi

 

Please can someone help I have a Server which has been working for about three running a S5000psl board for years with no problems.

 

Recently 2 of the drive no longer being used were removed from the server and it now no longer wants to boot.

 

When we power up the fans spin and the LED flash a couple of different combinations but always finish on the same MSB amber and LSB red status light flashing green.

 

Have tried resetting BIOS to default I have removed all non essential add-on cards have tried with 1 x processor and minimal Ram but know difference.

 

If I completely remove the RAM i get beeps from the board so board seems ok. tested processor in another server they are working and RAM.

 

Thanks

 

Warren 

OA2.x Supported by S2600KP

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HI All,

 

Very simple question does the new S2600KP board support Microsoft OEM Activation (OA) 2.x? IE Windows 2012R2...

 

I am unable to activate using AMISLP.exe, I get an error 'The SLP Driver is not available in the firmware Image'

 

I think it is something missing in the latest BIOS, maybe it can only run OA 3.0?

S2600KP

RS3WC080 as a HBA

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Hello

 

My first discussion here, im wondering if it's possbile to run a RS3WC080 in HBA mode? I'm about to build a NAS with ZFS and i have a RS3WC080 raid controller laying around, but im not sure if its possbile to make the controller passthrough the drives to FreeNAS as just drives. Anyone have any experience with this controller?

 

 

Regards

Niklas R

Intel S1200btl problems with 2TB limit

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Hi, I'm trying to make this motherboard work and have had many issues with it but I'm down to the last one!  The motherboard doesn't recognize drives bigger than 2TB.  I installed the lastest BIOS release.  I have a couple of these motherboards, the issues are identical on both.  If one single drive is bigger than 2TB it shows up as 746GB in the RAID setup at the end of POST.  In the MB, I have it set to use RAID and  Intel RST.  It sounds strange that a pretty new MB would have this problem so I'm thinking maybe there's something I'm missing.  This all happens pre-OS, but the OS has the same problem.  I ran an Intel utility that said the OROM didn't support drives over 2TB.

 

If I setup a RAID5 with, for instance, 4 1TB HDDs, it works.  I get a RAID volume that's about 3TB - looks fine in the OS as well.  The only thing it can't handle is a single drive that's over 2TB.

 

Any ideas?  Can this be fixed?


intel RST raid 1 preserve data greyed out

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Hello, at the moment i'm bit frustrated, my situation looks like this:

 

1. i had intel RST raid 1 (seagate 1TB constelletion x 2 ) setup (in bios set Raid and intel RST), raid 1 was working, but both DRIVES started to fail (realocated sector count and other smart errors).

 

2. I bought new 4TB seagate raid disks

 

3. I removed one old 1Tb hard drive and put in new 4TB hard drive and marked as spare, raid rebuilded with new and old drive

 

4. i removed 1Tb hard drive and resseted 4Tb drive from CTRL-I as non raid drive

 

5. i streched 4Tb raid drive to maximum in disk management (because it is MBR-NTFS not GPT it's not bigger than 2TB...), for now 2Tb enough later i will reinstall server to 4TB and GPT, but i dont know how to proceed...

 

6. i updated server firmware to latest (intel server board 1200bt), and the installed latest intel RST software.

 

what i wan't to accomplish is create RAID from intel RST raid 1 preserving data

 

intel_rst.JPG

but how You see this option is greyed out...

 

And here is screenshot of disk management (i deleted other backups disks to better understand):

disk_management.JPG

if anyone would advise me, what to do? How to build raid1 with preserving data?

 

Should i backup everthing and reinstall windows server with GPT partitions, and then how to restore everything as it was?

 

And here is screenshot from CTRL-I (it was taken before i upgraded intel RST software)

 

20150222_222626 (Medium).jpg

 

Thank You in advance...

How to connect two ISPs on a single serverboard S1200v3rps?

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I am using Intel serverboard S1200v3rps which is having two ethernet ports. Network uptime is of critical importance and I want to minimise network downtime. Currently, I have connection from a single ISP. Whenever there is some issue with that ISP, I am experiencing downtime. Now, I want to take a second connection from a different ISP and connect my server to both ISPs simultaneously. How can I make the configuration such that the server shares the connection provided by both ISPs and if one ISP goes down, the server starts to use the other ISP completely?

iaStor Event 9 - RAID 82801GR/GH

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Had one hard drive fail. It was a Seagate ST3250310AS. I replaced both old discs with Seagate ST3250310CS discs. Now, I get iaStor timeout errors in Win 2003 (event 9) right after the SQL server does a database backup (~20GB). Sometimes the PC locks up upon completion of the backup. Do I have bad discs? Do I need to upgrade software/driver for the controller? Below is the error event and the report from the Intel Matrix Storage Console. Thanks.

 

ERROR (follows the backup every time)

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Event Type:Information
Event Source:SQLISPackage
Event Category:None
Event ID:12288
Date:2/18/2015
Time:4:00:05 AM
User:NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer:DATABASESERVER

Description:

Package "Backup to Local Drive - Daily Mon-Sat" started.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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Event Type:Information
Event Source:MSSQLSERVER
Event Category:(6)
Event ID:18264
Date:2/18/2015
Time:4:14:17 AM
User:NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer:DATABASESERVER

Description:

Database backed up. Database: SODatabase, creation date(time): 2009/02/19(14:30:51), pages dumped: 2519707, first LSN: 2061251:197:132, last LSN: 2061251:478:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=DISK: {'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\SODatabase\SODatabase_backup_201502180400.bak'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 58 47 00 00 0a 00 00 00   XG......

0008: 0f 00 00 00 44 00 41 00   ....D.A.

0010: 54 00 41 00 42 00 41 00   T.A.B.A.

0018: 53 00 45 00 53 00 45 00   S.E.S.E.

0020: 52 00 56 00 45 00 52 00   R.V.E.R.

0028: 00 00 07 00 00 00 6d 00   ......m.

0030: 61 00 73 00 74 00 65 00   a.s.t.e.

0038: 72 00 00 00               r... 

------------------------------------------------------

Event Type:Error
Event Source:iaStor
Event Category:None
Event ID:9
Date:2/18/2015
Time:4:17:57 AM
User:N/A
Computer:DATABASESERVER

Description:

The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 0f 00 05 00 01 00 6a 00   ......j.

0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0   .......À

0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........

0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........

0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........

0028: 00 00 00 00 02            .....

 

REPORT

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System Information

 

Kit Installed: 6.2.1.1002

Kit Install History: 6.2.1.1002

Shell Version: 6.2.1.1002

 

OS Name: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003 for Small Business Server

OS Version: 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 Build 3790

System Name: DATABASESERVER

System Manufacturer: Intel

System Model: S3000AH

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6320  @ 1.86GHz

BIOS Version/Date: Intel Corporation S3000.86B.02.00.0044.071120071047, 07/11/2007

 

Language: ENU

 

Intel(R) RAID Technology

 

Intel RAID Controller: Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller

Number of Serial ATA ports: 4

 

RAID Option ROM Version: 5.6.2.1002

Driver Version: 6.2.1.1002

RAID Plug-In Version: 6.2.1.1002

Language Resource Version of the RAID Plug-In: 6.2.1.1002

Create Volume Wizard Version: 6.2.1.1002

Language Resource Version of the Create Volume Wizard: 6.2.1.1002

Create Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard Version: 6.2.1.1002

Language Resource Version of the Create Volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard: 6.2.1.1002

Modify Volume Wizard Version: 6.2.1.1002

Language Resource Version of the Modify Volume Wizard: 6.2.1.1002

Delete Volume Wizard Version: 6.2.1.1002

Language Resource Version of the Delete Volume Wizard: 6.2.1.1002

ISDI Library Version: 6.2.1.1002

Event Monitor User Notification Tool Version: 6.2.1.1005

Language Resource Version of the Event Monitor User Notification Tool: 6.2.1.1005

Event Monitor Version: 6.2.1.1005

 

Array_0000

Status: No active migration(s)

Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes

Size: 465.7 GB

Free Space: 0 GB

Number of Hard Drives: 2

Hard Drive Member 1: ST3250310CS

Hard Drive Member 2: ST3250310CS

Number of Volumes: 1

Volume Member 1: Array0

 

Array0

Status: Normal

System Volume: Yes

Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No

RAID Level: RAID 1 (mirroring)

Size: 232.8 GB

Number of Hard Drives: 2

Hard Drive Member 1: ST3250310CS

Hard Drive Member 2: ST3250310CS

Parent Array: Array_0000

 

Hard Drive 0

Usage: Array member

Status: Normal

Device Port: 0

Device Port Location: Internal

Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Generation 2

Model: ST3250310CS

Serial Number: 6RYM1R5C

Firmware: 3.ACD

Native Command Queuing Support: Yes

Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes

Size: 232.8 GB

Number of Volumes: 1

Volume Member 1: Array0

Parent Array: Array_0000

 

Hard Drive 1

Usage: Array member

Status: Normal

Device Port: 1

Device Port Location: Internal

Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Generation 2

Model: ST3250310CS

Serial Number: 6RYMJA04

Firmware: 3.ACD

Native Command Queuing Support: Yes

Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes

Size: 232.8 GB

Number of Volumes: 1

Volume Member 1: Array0

Parent Array: Array_0000

 

Unused Port 0

Device Port: 2

Device Port Location: Internal

 

Unused Port 1

Device Port: 3

Device Port Location: Internal

 

Message was edited by: Anthony Lamping - Reason: Typos

Intel ASC memory consumption

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Hello,

 

after installation of Intel Active System Console on serverboard S2600CP and Windows Server 2012 R2 (only Hyper-V role installed), these processes start to consume lots of memory:

     platform_handler.exe

     policyservice.exe

around 2GB each, platform_handler in 2 or 3 instances, so around 6GB of memory together. After restart, everything is ok, but these processes are slowly growing up to 2GB.

I have tried ASC 6.1.14 and 7.0.20, both with the same result. After uninstall of ASC everything is ok.

 

Is there any solution? I would like to use ASC, but 6GB of memory in unacceptable.

 

Thanks.

Very noisy fan 3 on S2600CW

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When the server is idle all the temperatures on my server are below 45 C. 4 fans are throttled down to 800 RPM, but fan 3 is stuck at 8500 RPM and makes a very high noise. I've already updated BIOS/ME/FRU/SDR and the script correctly detects the chassis (redundant, non-HSBP), but the middle fan remains stuck. The PWM offset is set to 0, the fan profile is Acoustic and the CPU Power and Performance Policy is Balanced Power.

 

Is there anything I can do to improve this?

raw ipmi command to retrieve NIC 1 MAC address on S2600GZ

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Hi there,

 

what is the right approach to retrieve the NIC 1 MAC address (for OS usage) via IPMI?

 

NOTE: I am assuming the system is powered off and that a DHCP server assigned an IP address to the BMC LAN channel 1.

 

The S2600GZ technical product specification section 6.10.3.2.3 highlights the convention used to assign MAC address so conceptually one could calculate it from the BMC LAN channel 1 MAC address (by subtracting 4) but that seems brittle so I am looking for the (raw) IPMI command to provide that info directly!?

 

Other vendors implemented vendor-specific IPMI commands but I can't seem to find the doc that would cover an S2600GZ board..

 

Thanks & cheerio, Harry.

S1200V3RPM beeps during POST

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Hi

I have a S1200V3RPM which beeps in a strange way during POST.

The beeps are like this: '''------'  (three short high, six long medium, one short high)

When Windows Server 2012 R2 boots it reports that a USB device failed to load, although no USB devices are connected to the board.

What could this mean?

Thanks


motherboard se7230nh1-r and hard disk over 2TB

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Hi everybody!

 

Anybody know is se7230nh1-e mb support hard disk over 2Tb? I want to use 4Tb drives, but not sure that mb detect its.

USB Error with S3420GP Board

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I've been struggling with this S3420GPLX board with Xeon 3470. The setup is:

 

S3420GPLX (latest BIOS) with SCROMBSASMR RAID, SC5650UP/AXX6DRV3GEXP drive cage

ATI video PCI-e

320GB drive as testing drive, configured at RAID 0.

 

I loaded Windows server OS: WS2012, WS2008 and WHS2011. Then the latest chipset, lan, video drivers. Things were just fine. All the devices are working properly.  But about one hour later, it starts to beep and complaining "USB device not recognized". I do not have any USB device connected, either internally or externally. I did put in an USB drive from time to time, but removed moments later.

 

Then the error message stays in BMC and I have to cold start again. Otherwise, the server just keeps beeping loud....

 

What went wrong? Is this a bug, or I'm missing some driver?

Raid 10 with 2 failed drives

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I just like know if it is possible for raid 10 with 4 drives to boot up if 2 out of 4 drives fails?

плата intel s3420gpc и hdd SATA 3Tb

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Плата intel s3420gpc (так она определила себя в биос).

Кто тестировал на совместимость с дисками SATA 3Tb?

 

лучшее, что нашел

_http://www.intel.com/support/ru/motherboards/server/s3420gp/sb/cs-030738.htm?_ga=1.11611764.1507384341.1425385462

но эта статья от

Ян 2015 Last Modified: 23

Дата создания: 06 августа 2009

и упоминается единственный диск от Hitachi

RAID 0 to RAID 5

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I have 2 terabyte drives in a RAID 0 config. It has Intel Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise Software and an Intel C600 Series Chipset SATA RAID Controller.

 

I have a new drive on the way, What will I need to do to go from RAID 0 to RAID 5?

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