Hello,
I have the above mentioned server with hasrware details as written in: the thread
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/p/20005093/20979721/
When I power-on the server and let it stay in BIOS setup, i.e. without any activity of the OS, one can hear ongoning disk activity. It sound like the SAS controller is reading all sectors for defect tracks, or the like.
I have here a 13 seconds recording, the noise is best to hear between second 4 and 11: http://www.unixarea.de/dell-pe-r210-disk.ogg
After one hour of sitting so, the noise stops.
Any ideas?
The OS boots fine and works fine, for example building FreeBSD world and kernel, without any problem.
Thanks
Matthias