Another threat to your servers: http://www.dataclean.com/pdf/zincwhiskers3.pdf

I found the following ad on my local Craigslist in the Los Angeles area and it looks like a bunch of Proliant gear and other misc. stuff is being liquidated as part of some ISP going under. Unfortunately, they're asking for bids on these items.. In my case, I'd have to add gas costs to the...

I have a ML350 (G1) which is currently running a single PIII 600 (133MHz FSB), and it uses a VRM with the part numbers 330638-001/329267-001. I'm planning to drop a pair of 933MHz PIIIs into it but will need a pair of VRMs for the new processors? I believe I need a pair 155681-001 but I cannot find...

Does Compaq make any RAID box that takes the standard Compaq hotswap trays and allows clients to connect to logical volumes using third party fibre channel cards like QLogic 2200F? The older Compaq Fibre Channel Array RAID cabinet is totally proprietary and only works with Compaq fibre cards,...

Someone locally is selling a used DL580 for $80.. It's populated w/ 2Gb of RAM, and two 900Mhz Xeon processors.. The only thing I don't know about yet is what generation machine it is.. Anyway, assuming there are no huge differences between generations, is there anything special I should know...

Does HP make any small servers that are in a tower configuration and work with standard hotswap SCSI drives? What are the best options? -- Will

Is there a trick to adding two Compaq NC-3134 ethernet cards to a Windows NT 4.0 box? When I select Add for the second card, and insert the Compaq OEMSETUP.INF on the most recent ethernet distribution floppies, Compaq simply re-installs the existing card. The second card never shows up in the...

Is there any way to force drives that are inserted into a 4214R drive array to autostart? Apparently the host is sending the start unit to these drives by default. I have an application exposing drives through fibre channel where the start unit is not sent by the host, and I need the drive to...

Im working on a new workstation project at the house ... The machine I want to use needs RDRAM (Rambus). If you have any PC800 256M or 512M pairs, 40/45ns ECC rambus, I have a ton of SDRAM and DDR to trade. If you have a 64bit SATAII controller that you want to get rid of, and have been thinking...

My Proliant 6400 ate a power supply last week (leaving me in a single PS configuration for the time being -- no spares right now).. Anyway, is it worth my time & effort to take apart the bad supply and see if I can get the fan running again or should I fork over my hard-earned $10 for a new one (+...

Greetings: I would like to find a DL360 G2 (or newer) cheap with reasonable shipping costs (unlike on eBay); it need not have an HD or much RAM but should have a CPU (and embedded 1000BaseT). A working mainboard would be another option (with proprietary cables if you have 'em). Regards,

OK, I know, the reseller told me these drivers were not hot-swap. I knew that before I bough them. However what I was not prepared for was the little sticker on the server when we unboxed it which said the LED on the front of the hard drive caddies will not work. So how am I supposed to know...

We had a power surge over the weekend and it took out a CPU fan on my Proliant 6400R -- apparently the replacement parts are starting to get a bit scarce on these models and I can't find an easy & cheap replacement anymore.. All I need is a replacement fan or if someone can tell me how to...

My proliant is currently running FC3 just fine but I need to upgrade to a newer version to get some stuff I'm now interested in running -- my current setup has a broken set of python/yum bindings and I've gotten tired of dicking around with trying to get that working so I could upgrade (using...

If you're in the LA area and can go get it, this might be a nice item to shove in your garage data center for free : http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sys/241316589.html ** synopsis below: "Originally cost over $200K. This is a working pull from Stamps.com's datacenter. Manufactured by ATL,...

Apparently ElectroRent is ditching a bunch of Compaq servers ranging from Proliant 7000's to ML530s to DL380's.. Not sure if the prices are any good (might be a bit high?), but thought I'd pass it along if you're looking for any : http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sys/122542812.html Perhaps...

For those of you that remember, I won an auction on Ebay for a storageworks enclosure only to find that it arrived damaged. The damage seems to be only in the front right corner of the chassis which I think has no electronics nearby, but wanted to get your inputs. I won't be able to use any...

I'm running a Proliant 5500 Xeon currently with a single 500MHz 512kb processor and I've been looking around for 550MHz 2Mb cache versions. There seem to be a few available but they're either non-Compaq (IBM or Dell) retention mechanisms or pulled from 8500's and have the wrong heatsinks (and...

Need some clarification about arrays. 2 of my drives failed and so i pulled them out and put them back in, just to make sure. its failed again. I swapped the 2, which were in bay 3 and 4 and now bays 5-8 are not working as well. it says 5-8 are not in order and 3,4 need to be replaced. any insights...

i had a 1600R at a clients site, was experementing with it in hopes of upgrading thier 1500T. system had 1 p2300, extra ram card with ram, ( dont recall how much) and a hard drive with NT on it setup and running. the client tossed the machine in the garbage by mistake. now i need to get a value...