Setup did not detect harddisk in a ibm eserver xseries 250

luispol9

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Hi I have an IBM Xseries 250 server, last days I have two alarmed disc intenete repair from the ServeRAID Mini-Configuration program, but now I have blocked without restore it try I get that they are ready, then I copy settings and even I do not go in online, I have four disks of 36.4 Gb Scsi two remaining line and not
 
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Yea if they are gone not much you can do. Great thing about SCSI is you can try moving them around. Does the drive caddys have light indacators on them? I know the dell's I work with do and usually go red if the drive is bad.

Also what is this used for? And rather than getting a few used SCSI drives I'd either get a newer server built from some better parts with some SATA or SAS Drives. Also IF you decided to keep using the server but don't have any extra drives let me know. My boss has some old Dell PE1600 servers with some UltraWide 320 hard drives that are in good shape pulled from servers we bought clients years ago and upgraded them to newer servers in the past year and ah alf. . have done a surface test on all of them and they...
Yea if they are gone not much you can do. Great thing about SCSI is you can try moving them around. Does the drive caddys have light indacators on them? I know the dell's I work with do and usually go red if the drive is bad.

Also what is this used for? And rather than getting a few used SCSI drives I'd either get a newer server built from some better parts with some SATA or SAS Drives. Also IF you decided to keep using the server but don't have any extra drives let me know. My boss has some old Dell PE1600 servers with some UltraWide 320 hard drives that are in good shape pulled from servers we bought clients years ago and upgraded them to newer servers in the past year and ah alf. . have done a surface test on all of them and they all tested good. got some from the standard 36gb up to i want to say 127 but not sure if we got any of those left. i know we got a few 73GB's.
 
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