[Gllug] Dell poweredge 4400 - Not seeing drives (even in BIOS utility)

Aaron Trevena aaron.trevena at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 19:44:26 UTC 2007


Hi Andy,

Thanks for the help.

On 24/10/2007, Andy Farnsworth <farnsaw at stonedoor.com> wrote:
> This sounds suspiciously like a power problem.  Are the drives spinning
> up and/or showing lights?  They may not spin up but still receive power
> as many of the fancier server drives don't spin up until they get a
> command.  This way you don't have 10 drives drawing starting power at
> the same time and killing the PSU.

Hmm... the disk caddy lights are coming on - I can't see any disk lights.

I've got power from 2 320 watt psu's and have tried with just 2
matched disks but no joy.

Sorry I've rudely failed to say thanks or respond - been too busy to
even think about this box and wanted to investigate it a bit more
before asking for more help.

Cheers,

A.

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