Re: Dell 2850 issue - (new problem)
- From: Aus <Aus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:33:02 -0800
I rang Dell sales today re. this. Their explanation (a salesguy I have known
for a while who spoke to the server team) said "SBS is not supplied for rack
servers as rack servers are sold to multi server environments and SBS is not
used in these setups."
Well, ok, so much for their knowledge of SBS but I see their basic point
even though its lame. Dell have to supply SBS as a licence and media rather
than a bundled product if you want it with a rack server - he said he would
do that if I wanted.
aus.
"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:
> IMO this is a big gunshot to the foot by Dell. Windows on x86 and they
> don't support it? I wonder if anyone's asked them what it is about SBS that
> they don't support? I can't imagine that there's any program in SBS they
> would not support on that server, and it sounds like Dave Taylor's got it
> down to a science, so is Dell just too lazy to add it to the Open Manage CD?
>
>
> "Dave Taylor" <dt-news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eCO41WgNFHA.2964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > All,
> >
> > I have just finished another SBS 2003 install on my 3rd 2850. I get these
> > instructions from the Dell server Tech's here in the UK after I complained
> > like hell to our account manager who had asured me that the 2850 would be
> > OK for SBS 2003. This was after they (Dell) had changed our order from the
> > 2600 to a 4600, and then to the 2850 with a free rack as they had more in
> > stock. I even spoke to someone in marketing who advised me that they would
> > not be looking at including support for SBS 2003 as people who buy SBS do
> > not buy racks!!!!
> >
> > 1 - On a laptop insert the Dell Server Assistant CD and create a Windows
> > 2003 disk with the raid drivers on it.
> > 2 - Create your RAID config the way you want. Normally I just create 1
> > big Raid 5 Partion that has either 3 or 4 73Gb drives.
> > 3 - Boot the server from the SBS CD1
> > 4 - Press F6 when you are prompted to load other SCSI drivers
> > 5 - Insert the floppy disk created in step 1
> > 6 - Use the driver from the FLOPPY disk and NOT the Windows 2003 driver
> > from the CD as it will always fail.
> > 7 - carry on as normal the SBS setup
> >
> > The driver I have been using is mraid35x.sys 6.41.2.32 (12-11-2003)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > "Theo" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:d2gadc$gb8$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Hi
> >> We had to rebuild a 2650 with SBS 2003 (which is also not qualified by
> >> Dell It looks like all of the xx50's aren't) - that someone else had
> >> specified and bodged. Why choose a system that Dell does not support? Why
> >> not a 2600 or a 2800? If you want a rack they can be racked. I don't see
> >> the point in complcating things like this?
> >> BTW the Dell server assistant set up disks are smart enough not to permit
> >> SBS 2003 on a 50 so you cannot do the install using that route.
> >> Theo
> >> "Aus" <Aus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:FFF1D8A3-B2B2-4405-9185-813839C83154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Hi, Im about to order a similar setup - didnt you read what some others
> >>> have
> >>> said - they *have* got SBS to work. It may be that it doesn't work in
> >>> some
> >>> configs but does in others hence some have no real issues and others
> >>> die.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe those who have had success can post their exact setups so we can
> >>> emulate etc.
> >>>
> >>> aus.
> >>>
> >>> "Mark" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I don't know if you read my last post but 2850 with sbs2003 is NOT
> >>>> going to
> >>>> work. My buddy logged 40 fruitless hours on it.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> "Ross Malyon" <non@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>>> news:uImAG9XNFHA.3988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> > Hi all
> >>>> > had some issues getting the cd to copy files over to the raid got
> >>>> > that
> >>>> > sorted now by using old drivers, only trouble is after windows copies
> >>>> > files and i run the normal setup it goes through all the keyboard
> >>>> > options
> >>>> > and i enter my cdkey and password etc then it eventually restarts
> >>>> > then the
> >>>> > black loading screen appears and that small moving bar moves once and
> >>>> > then
> >>>> > the server restarts ..
> >>>> >
> >>>> > have tried various things but im at a loss on this one..
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Anyone have any issues?
> >>>> >
> >>>> > computer has 2 gig of ram i tried disabling it in the bios so it only
> >>>> > uses
> >>>> > 256 but it did the same thing..
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Thanks in advance
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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