Hi, Just bought a refurbished one, at Fry's. 1. Is there any power supply that is smaller and lighter for this model? 2. If I will use it overseas, is the ground polarity on the electrical outlet, must be in the adapter (meaning, do I need to have a three holes adapter, or can I use the...

Can you do this? I can't find the option. It seems in the BIOS you can select to enable the SATA RAID but it says it's a software RAID, which seems strange. Software raid in the BIOS? It also says SmartStart does not support this configuration. I'm using the SATA backplane.

I have a bit of a problem with a DL385 server using two P600s and would like some advice. The initial installation was done in error putting the boot device on an internal P600 SAS RAID controller in slot 3. Later on another P600 was added in slot 1 that connects to an external array on an...

We have an RA4100 with dual RA4000 controllers that, a long time ago, was set up for redundancy. What I want to do is remove this redundancy, so that the second RA4000 controller in the unit operates as a separate path to the same logical drives. What piece of software/hardware controls whether...

Hi, a customer gave us 2 Proliant (DL380 and ML370) servers to install W2k3. That worked OK, but when booting the systems they do not show the little white square in the right upper corner, but ask to Press F1 to continue F10 for System Partition Utilities That is not good as the systems shall...

Nut Cracker, I am also searching for a SmartStart 5.5 CD. Need it ASAP, Can you help?

I've picked up a used ML330E system board (230540-001) which seems to have been common in qute a few Compaq server models. It has a 933Mhz CPU (or thereabouts) and various PCI's including features board, network card etc. My intention is to use it in a standard ATX tower as a server on my...

Hi, We have a ML370 that has a 5 disk RAID 5 array.. One of the disks has the red light flashing and the event log says the status is "predictive failure".. I have just ordered a new drive which should be here in the next day or so.. Now for the question.. What is the procedure for replacing...

I have recently acquired a Proliant 5000 machine. Unfortunately the SmartStart CD for it has been lost. Does anyone know where I can get one from? -- /* =============================================================== */ I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure...

Does HP have a Proliant quad port gigabit ethernet card? I'm using these to build up an internal firewall with a large number of segments. -- Will

Does anyone happen to know if there is a power supply blank slot filler for the MSA 50? Power supply for that system is 377230-001. -- Will

I have a boot device in ID=0 on a DL380 G2 currently configured by the Smart 5si RAID controller as RAID 0. Is it possible to insert a second identical device and reconfigure the existing RAID 0 volume to RAID 1 without losing data? -- Will

Has anyone here converted a DL585 G1 to SAS? I see a part number 379090-B21 to convert the backplane to SAS, but does this include the new drive cage as well? Am I going to need any other part number(s) to complete the conversion? -- Will

The P600 controller has a strange configuration option for each logical volume that is used as a boot device. Basically you can choose between disabling the maximum boot device size, in which case the boot device is limited to 4GB or enabling maximum, in which case you are limited to...

The MSA 50 JBOD SAS enclosures have some kind of high density mini connector on them that mates to the SAS RAID controllers like the P600. Does HP make any adapter that would allow us to use these boxes as a pure JBOD solution? I am trying to set up a testing station for SAS drives, so I need...

I'm converting a DL380 G2 into a file server, and I would like to know which gigabit ethernet card that is supported for that server is the fastest HP makes? I assume the opticals would in general give better performance than the copper based cards? How would NC 6136 compare against...

I'm using DL380 with SmartArray 5Si under Windows 2003. Is there a way I can change the Port number reported by the ACU for a given drive slot? I had a pair of drives in another DL380 and removed one to put in the new system, hoping to use it as a starting point for building the...

On a DL380 G2, I have a system drive as RAID 1 on SCSI ID=0 and ID=1. With power off, I removed the drive in ID=1, and put it into an identical DL380 G2 in the ID=1 position, hoping to clone the configuration. The system boots fine on the new computer, but when I stick an identical drive in the...

I'm using the Proliant Support Pack for Windows 2003, and I want to know how do I select a single driver and install it from the GUI? If you highlight one driver and selected the menu option to install just selected drivers, it installs every one of them! -- Will

I'm using Smartarray 5Si in a DL380 G2, and I want to better understand how much detail with the controller drivers record in the Windows EventViewer in case of errors? Will they record SMART failures? What about minor inconsistencies seen on the disk and corrected? Does reporting...