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Turns out the power distribution board is dead. I bought a power supply tester and when I plugged the 24 pin connector from the Supermicro chassis into it, I got nothing. I tried this with a regular ATX power supply and it lit up.I then connected a regular ATX power supply to the board in the...

What tools would I need to do this?

There is no indication that it's doing anything, from what I remember it should power on immediately. There are no lights on the board, nothing, it's just dead and unresponsive.

I have an Asrock EP2C602 motherboard that was working in an older SuperMicro 36 bay chassis. I removed the board to try and see if a smaller board would work, it did not. I removed any extra standoffs and now the EP2C602 will not power on. The power button on the chassis has never worked so I am...

Hey guys haven't been here in a loong time, missed this place. Trying to get a motherboard going in a case in which it worked fine before, not sure what the issue is now though but it simply won't power up. I had removed it from the Supermicro 36 bay chassis to put another board in but I was...

I also have data duplicated on another server.

My backup server currently has this much in total storage, you can also see how much I've used and got left, it's running unRAID.

I have a 36 bay supermicro chassis with SAS2 backplanes and expander. I am using a single Dell H310 flashed to IT mode, can I mix SAS and SATA drives? Right now I have only SATA drives but I am getting a good deal on some SAS drives and want to know if I can use them.

Supermicro chassis 36 bay chassis 107TB SSG-6047R-E1R36N Intel S5500HCV server motherboard 2X Xeon E5620 2.4GHz 48GB ECC RAM Dual redundant 1400w power supplies Dell H310 running Dell IT firmware 30 hard drives of varying sizes 27 for data, 2 for parity and one as a cache drive 9x WD30EFRX...

Got my Dell H310, flashed it with Dell IT firmware, added my second parity disk back and its almost halfway done a parity check/sync, time will tell.

Looks like there is a major incompatability with this SAS2LP HBA and the supermicro backplane. I came into my office yesterday morning to find error messages on the console of the monitor attached to the server with errors like: Error:PD Not Ready or Unknown Device Type [FAILED] and bunch of...

So the parity check passed, the 8TB drive that had been my second parity disk completed one preclear pass without any issues. It turns out that guys in the unRAID forums believe my parity check speeds have to do with the fact that I was using an i5 2500 before that has faster single thread...

This is the chassis that I have, not the motherboard, mine is an older dual socket 1366 intel board. I got it on Ebay here in Canada with the board, dual quad core Xeons, 52GB of ECC RAM, 24 matching drive sleds, and 6 extras for just over $800 CAN including shipping...

These are all the drives and devices in my server according to unRAID, as you can see there are two entries for the enclosure that list SAS2: [0:0:0:0] disk Lexar JumpDrive 1.00 /dev/sda 8.02GB [1:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68A 0A80 /dev/sdb 3.00TB [1:0:1:0]...

I can't move the drives to another backplane, I have 30 drives and the front 24 slots are full. I could move the rear backplane cable to another port in case I damaged the one port I have been using. I am attaching a diagram of the backplanes as I have them connected. Also, don't you think if I...