December 22, 2024 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Dec 22 2024

Dell R730 – moving disks from front drive bay to PCI slots in r730-03

Leave a Comment / hardware, R730 / By Dan Langille / December 22, 2024

I’ve been seeing these types of errors for about 4 weeks now. I ordered a replacement drive. When it arrived, I realized I had no free drive bays. When a drive is still functional, I prefer to leave it in the host to retain zpool integrity. Instead, I will add the new drive in, run the zpool replace command, and when completed, remove the faulty drive. I decided to order more Icy Dock […]

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Eaton 5PX UPS – clear the ‘Replace Battery’ warning

Three weeks ago, I wrote about Replacing batteries Eaton 5PX – 5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT. Back then, I did not properly replace the front panel before connecting the battery… See also Eaton 5PX console booting screen shots for the followup work. Fixing this requires disconnecting the battery from the UPS. I’m not sure if I can do that live, but I’m not going to try. During this procedure, I will also move two drives