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nexenta/opensolaris on a dell 2850 with drac 4 – virtual media issues

November 3, 2009

I recently tried installing both OpenSolaris and Nexenta Core Platform on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a DRAC4 card. The installation process goes fine, but when rebooting into the installed OS the kernel goes into a loop of trying to reset an ATA device (‘Bus Reset’ errors — if I have a chance, I’ll repeat [...]

Tagged as: Dell, Hardware, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Storage

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powervault 660f management

December 10, 2007

I’ve received a few requests over time about how to manage a Dell PowerVault 660F from Linux hosts, most recently from a nice guy named Robert. He reminded me that I really should post some information on this here, as it can be hard to find.
Standard Disclaimer: If you follow any of my tips and [...]

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warning (comment?) about dell’s completecare service

May 3, 2006

When I purchased my laptop a little bit over a year ago, I added Dell’s CompleteCare service to it. This was advertised (at the time) as “3-year Next Business Day Onsite warranty with CompleteCare”. To me, this implied that the CompleteCare service would be rendered on-site on the next-day. However, a couple weeks ago, I [...]

Tagged as: Customer Service, Dell

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full suspend/resume *finally* working on my inspiron 6000

January 12, 2006

With the current version of the Linux kernel (2.6.15), some patches, and ATI’s fglrx driver version 8.20.8, software suspend/resume *finally* works, with full accelerated graphics support. Woohoo! Uptime on my laptop is now 6 days, and that involves many trips between home and work, and many suspend/resumes.
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new backplane in my drive array

September 17, 2005

I’ve got the new backplane installed in the PowerVault 660F array. It sure was interesting to install – have to pull the entire array apart to get at it. I did find out that almost all of the weight is in the components – the actual casing for the array is light as a feather. [...]

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