How do you update the firmware on the AIT50 Hotswap tape drive? I would prefer a Windows-based utility for doing this if one exists. The Compaq tape drive floppy set of seven floppies is just hanging on our Proliant 6400R, and I don't see a way to get it to do the upgrade correctly. -- Will

Can someone please confirm if a SCSI hotswap drive comes up reporting its speed as ASYN, does this mean it is limited to 1.5 to 5 MB / sec? What causes an ultra-80 device to back down to that speed? -- Will

Does anyone have the Compaq spare numbers used for the MSA30 Option number 302970-B21? -- Will

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 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...

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'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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...