I have an old Dell R710 and recently the PERC has been belly aching about a degraded drive (or I’m thinking the wire or PERC itself is having an issue).
Knowing its Drive 0 per the PERC BIOS, and knowing I’m changing my ESXi to boot from flash and datastore will be iSCSI from my NAS, I just want to hush the alarm for now.
O. M. G. I can’t believe the barren desert that is the google’s for the PERC i6 and how to shut this thing up. I followed a combination of other model’s tutorials to finally find where the alarm selection is and apparently its not even enabled! I also can’t highlight that field to try flopping it anyhow, tab just skips right over it, as if I do not have the right permissions.
I’m to my whits end, I’m googling pictures of the PCB trying to find the little speaker, I’m ready to just de-solder the thing. Anyone know where this little bugger is?
My apologies PERC Gods, weird coincidence, disk 0 did crap, but its the APC that is barking even though the LED does not display an error. More investigating to do.
I’m a derp, it wasn’t even the Dell, the beeping and the Dell front LED telling me about a hard drive error was around the same time and I made the mistake of assuming. @oO.o thanks for the help.
yeah I have an R710 and an R510, never heard the raid cards cause complaints, typically when there is beeping it’s either a UPS wanting a test, a battery has gone bad, or something terrible has happened to the server, but never a PERC card.