PowerEdge 2950

Lanther · 07-03-2009, 12:55 AM

Anyone here worked with the Dell Poweredge 2950 servers? We have two new ones up at my job and I'm having an issue with them. The issue I'm having is that the share drives on both of these servers will dissappear off of the computers they are mapped two. I can still ping both servers when this happens but cant get to the drives.

AdmnPower · 07-04-2009, 12:00 AM

Are you mapping to the drives using DNS, Netbios, or straight to the server's IP address?

Lanther · 07-05-2009, 09:39 PM

Have used both DNS and direct to IP and still lose them sporadically

AdmnPower · 07-05-2009, 10:13 PM

Hmm, that's quite strange. By disappear you mean the map drive is totally gone rather than just disconnecting I assume. There is some sort of keep alive timer on the server that will disconnect idle mapped drives to conserve resources or something like that.

Lanther · 07-07-2009, 06:14 AM

Yeah totally gone reboot the server and they come back. There was a feature on the broadcom cards called Ethernet@WireSpeed. I turned this feature off and its been up for four days now. Wish me luck.

AdmnPower · 07-07-2009, 06:32 AM

Hmm, well that's goo that you got your issue resolved. What exactly is that feature supposed to do? It sounds like it was messing stuff up somehow, perhaps to speed up the connection on the server it was dropping data streams it felt were unnecessary use of bandwidth thus disconnecting ur drives.

Lanther · 07-13-2009, 04:27 AM

That feature was suppose to make the card run at the highest possible speed that it could on the line. If the line could do 1gbs then the card was trying to push that amount out all the time. I think this was causing flow problems with the rest of the network.

07-03-2009, 12:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
Lanther Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas Age: 32 Posts: 237	PowerEdge 2950 Anyone here worked with the Dell Poweredge 2950 servers? We have two new ones up at my job and I'm having an issue with them. The issue I'm having is that the share drives on both of these servers will dissappear off of the computers they are mapped two. I can still ping both servers when this happens but cant get to the drives. __________________ EVGA MB / XFX NF2SALH MB Apevia Alien Case / Aspire Towe Case Rosewill 650W PSU / Rosewill RP500 PSU Athlon 64X2 3800+ / Athlon 2000 XP Processor 2047 MB DDR3200 RAM / 512 MB DDR3200 RAM 250 Gig Seagate / 120 Gig Maxtor 7200 rpm HD 2x Samsung 18x DVDRW / LG Super Multi DVD/RW Sony CDRW 256 MB FX 7600 / 128 MB FX 5200 "Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful Goodness is."-T-Bird

07-04-2009, 12:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
AdmnPower VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 1,377	Are you mapping to the drives using DNS, Netbios, or straight to the server's IP address? __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz 4 gig DDR 2 800 Sapphire Radeon 3870 X2 250 gig Seagate Barracuda Windows Vista

07-05-2009, 09:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
Lanther Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas Age: 32 Posts: 237	Have used both DNS and direct to IP and still lose them sporadically __________________ EVGA MB / XFX NF2SALH MB Apevia Alien Case / Aspire Towe Case Rosewill 650W PSU / Rosewill RP500 PSU Athlon 64X2 3800+ / Athlon 2000 XP Processor 2047 MB DDR3200 RAM / 512 MB DDR3200 RAM 250 Gig Seagate / 120 Gig Maxtor 7200 rpm HD 2x Samsung 18x DVDRW / LG Super Multi DVD/RW Sony CDRW 256 MB FX 7600 / 128 MB FX 5200 "Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful Goodness is."-T-Bird

07-05-2009, 10:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
AdmnPower VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 1,377	Hmm, that's quite strange. By disappear you mean the map drive is totally gone rather than just disconnecting I assume. There is some sort of keep alive timer on the server that will disconnect idle mapped drives to conserve resources or something like that. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz 4 gig DDR 2 800 Sapphire Radeon 3870 X2 250 gig Seagate Barracuda Windows Vista

07-07-2009, 06:14 AM	#5 (permalink)
Lanther Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas Age: 32 Posts: 237	Yeah totally gone reboot the server and they come back. There was a feature on the broadcom cards called Ethernet@WireSpeed. I turned this feature off and its been up for four days now. Wish me luck. __________________ EVGA MB / XFX NF2SALH MB Apevia Alien Case / Aspire Towe Case Rosewill 650W PSU / Rosewill RP500 PSU Athlon 64X2 3800+ / Athlon 2000 XP Processor 2047 MB DDR3200 RAM / 512 MB DDR3200 RAM 250 Gig Seagate / 120 Gig Maxtor 7200 rpm HD 2x Samsung 18x DVDRW / LG Super Multi DVD/RW Sony CDRW 256 MB FX 7600 / 128 MB FX 5200 "Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful Goodness is."-T-Bird

07-07-2009, 06:32 AM	#6 (permalink)
AdmnPower VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 1,377	Hmm, well that's goo that you got your issue resolved. What exactly is that feature supposed to do? It sounds like it was messing stuff up somehow, perhaps to speed up the connection on the server it was dropping data streams it felt were unnecessary use of bandwidth thus disconnecting ur drives. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz 4 gig DDR 2 800 Sapphire Radeon 3870 X2 250 gig Seagate Barracuda Windows Vista

07-13-2009, 04:27 AM	#7 (permalink)
Lanther Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas Age: 32 Posts: 237	That feature was suppose to make the card run at the highest possible speed that it could on the line. If the line could do 1gbs then the card was trying to push that amount out all the time. I think this was causing flow problems with the rest of the network. __________________ EVGA MB / XFX NF2SALH MB Apevia Alien Case / Aspire Towe Case Rosewill 650W PSU / Rosewill RP500 PSU Athlon 64X2 3800+ / Athlon 2000 XP Processor 2047 MB DDR3200 RAM / 512 MB DDR3200 RAM 250 Gig Seagate / 120 Gig Maxtor 7200 rpm HD 2x Samsung 18x DVDRW / LG Super Multi DVD/RW Sony CDRW 256 MB FX 7600 / 128 MB FX 5200 "Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful Goodness is."-T-Bird

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