![]() First, the SD cards themselves are not covered under Dell warranty, so we bought a new 4 GB card (the smallest we could find) from the nearest place that sold them (try your nearest Walgreens or CVS). This is also good advice for fueling your car in dry climates. Just remember to do it again if you wander off and come back. ![]() Touching the metal portions of the case works well for this, which you clearly have to do to get inside a PowerEdge. I always suggest you manage possible static electricity by ensuring you’re at the same electrical potential as the server. To me this is a real easy fix, but you should do what you’re comfortable with. ![]() Note: I’m certified to work on Dell servers, and have been messing with hardware for 25 years. We’d never seen a failure like this so we had no idea how to fix it, and the Internet was only slightly helpful (hence the point of this writeup). The other day we received an alarm: Failure detected on Internal Dual SD Module SD2 Ours are populated with two 2 GB SD cards from the factory, and set to Mirror Mode in the BIOS. It works great, and saves us a bunch of money per server in that we don’t need RAID controllers, spinning disks, etc. We use the Dell Internal Dual SD module (IDSDM) for our VMware ESXi hosts.
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