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July 2nd, 2012 15:00
How do I backup my Poweredge 2950 to Powervault 114T with SAS LTO4?
I am having a heck of a time with this.
I have a PE2950 with (1) SAS 5/E controller with (2) SAS cables connected to Port 0 and Port 1 of the controller. The other end of the SAS
cables are connected to Port 0 of each controller on the MD3000, (each of the two dual port controllers on the MD3000 has a Port 0 and a Port 1).
I also have a Dell H200 6Gbps SAS HBA I installed as a LTO-4 tape controller as there are only 2 PCIe 8x slots in the PE2950 mainboard, (one of the PCIe 8x is really a 4x, the lower one). I have this in the true PCIe 8x slot as it requires 8 lanes. when all is connected and powered up I watch the boot screen and it shows the controller is disabled by the user and No devices detected, if I go into the controller BIOS there is nothing I can change to get this to work.
I have a second SAS 5/E controller that I can change with the H200 6Gbps SAS HBA, but I will need a new cable. Does anyone know if this will even work? Is there only one type of SAS 5/E controller? or is there a HBA and a RAID version?
DELL-Kenny K
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July 3rd, 2012 12:00
Jbouman,
What I would recommend would be to go into the SAS card bios that is connected to the PV 114T. Does it see the device from inside the Bios? If it does see the tape drive then you can try and reset the card to factory defaults. If you can not see the tape drive from inside the bios do you have an open slot you can move the card to so we can verify that the slot is not bad. Lastly if you can find a cable for that SAS 5/E card it will work just fine going to the PV 114T. Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with.