in case you missed it, check out this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92a9bb94-1806-487b-a697-92492bf8cc8e&DisplayLang=en it seems microsoft has pulled the ITDU scan tool. we noticed this issue come up dell servers with perc 6 controllers. if it hadn’t been for one of our mindful development teams, we probably wouldn’t have noticed. it looked as if scanwrapper.exe was calling perc5.exe to interrogate the controller card. this was causing errors to pop up in the event log indicating the mismatched condition. our quick workaround was to stop remove any servers in our collections that had perc 6 listed as the scsi controller in hardware inventory. seems to run fine on older hardware still. here are the details from the page: Please Note: Effective July 2008 the Inventory Tool for Dell Updates file (SMS2003ITDU_ENU.exe) has been pulled due to an issue that was causing installations to fail. An updated version of the tool will be post
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