Comments on: IBM System x3250

By: SSE

SSE — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:11:21 +0000

Installed cpu2 on x3650 7979 and the server does not recognize it.

By: Moh Joan

Moh Joan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:56:00 +0000

i`ve x3650 when is start it`s work fine but when i shutdown the system and start again it`s need many times on/off to start it`s hang before start check the bios

By: Alfonso Castillo

Alfonso Castillo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:38:38 +0000

Hi Lukas

I got a x3250 server and deploy it without the SATA RAID controller (was not included). Now i get such controller, one extra HD and want to setup the basic raid…do i need to reinstall or the configuration utility take the first disk content?

TIA

By: hugle

hugle — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:59:33 +0000

Nice machine you got.
Do you have any experience with Supermicro X7DVL-3 motherboard models?
I got problems with SAS controllers.

By: Mike McLachlan

Mike McLachlan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:03:36 +0000

Thanks very much Lukas – I am looking at putting 4 500Gb Seagate ES.2 enterprise series drives into an x3400 in RAID 10 with simple swap, subsequently have found these IBM Part# IBMEZSWAP2 – the brackets themselves – so will be able to put these drives in after all.

Thanks again.

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:53:49 +0000

Mike,

The drives will fit into the connectors properly, but fitting into the bays itself will be a PITA. I would strongly suggest you to buy proper SS drives. The savings won’t be worth the hassle.

By: Mike McLachlan

Mike McLachlan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:41 +0000

Hi Lukas

Thanks for the info – can regular SATA drives be mounted in the simple swap bays without the blue latched caddy? Or is the caddy required for the drive to plug properly into the simple-swap backplane?

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:29:59 +0000

John,

According to this picture from the user Guide,

http://projectdream.org/~lb/sata.jpg

There should be two ports located behind the Card.

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:13:55 +0000

The hard drive backplane is plugged in to that card though… if you remove it, how do you cable the I/O connection to the systemboard without the RAID card?

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:53:56 +0000

Johm, yes, that one. Without it, the onboard controller will tkae over.

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:45:07 +0000

You’re talking about the small plug-in card that sits in the systemboard?

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:25:03 +0000

John, do you have a RAID Controller installed into the System? If yes, remove it. Then the standard AHCI controller will take over.

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:23:34 +0000

It seems the onboard controller only wants to config the hard drives as RAID, there’s no option for configuring the drives as seperate independant hard drives. Trying to stay away from having to add a PCIe controller card.

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:08:56 +0000

John,

Yes of course. You can use them with the standard, onboard SATA AHCI Controller.

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:02:31 +0000

Can you configure the drives to be stand-alone (not RAIDed at all)?

By: ardit

ardit — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:18:16 +0000

Have you tested this with Windows 2003 EE?
I have one x3105 AMD Opteron1212 and 1GB ram,
i want to replace with 3250 or 3200

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:37:31 +0000

Thx a lot , will give it a try … (long time didnt compiled a kernel :)

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:06:23 +0000

You'll need to configure your kernel to support AHCI SATA controllers, and reconfigure the SATA controller in the BIOS to use AHCI mode. More info about AHCI on linux

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:39:09 +0000

Can you send the kernel options required for this server in order to improve the surprisingly low disk IO performance ?

Regards