We use the APC Symmetra UPS in our server room and lab, and I like it a lot. It has hotswap battery modules that you can just plug and play. You don't disconnect wires and you don't issue any commands to put the system in some special mode. The system autodetects both removal and insertion. ...

The next chapter in the saga of getting this Proliant 3000 up and running is that I have just purchased four 4.3Gb drives to supplement the four existing drives. Whilst I understand that I can only have seven drives and the SCSI adaptor on the same chain, there are obviously eight slots in...

I have a smart array 3200. Does someone know the largest hard drive that this array with see. Thanks Andy

Nutcracker, or another resident "expert" I have a slew of dl380's, any easy way to make them start booting/power-up when power is applied to the power supplies. I didn't see anything in the setup about power on defaults. My thought is I have some servers and arrays I want to be able to fire...

Hi, Has anyone tried installing a RILOE in to a Deskpro EN system? Will it work? I know it's not spec'd for it, but I figure if I can use one in my Prosignia 200 (P166) server it should work. Thanks, Doug

Could no longer boot my ML370_G2, it no longer see the Harddisk. I get the error "SCSI Bios not installed", so it could not see my Windows partition. I do not know how the Bios could have evaporated. I get the same error message either with or without RAID controller in place. Any idea on how...

I have a proliant that has 18.2 scsi drives which replaced the orig 9.1 drives that came in the orig trays. Now I would like to replace the 18.2 drives with something bigger but don't know how large I can go. Called HP & they said 36 for sure but don't know about anything larger. Any ideas how to...

Anyone ever get this to work ? Ive never tried it, but my gut tells me it wont work. - LC

I have a proliant 8000, running CentOS, a Red Het EL clone, a 4250es RAID array, with 21 146G hotswap drives attached. I am unable to create, or expand logical drives past 514,072M. I've tried both from cpqacuxe/browser, and from the util that comes with smartstart 5.5 I've updated system and...

We are configuring some ML3x0's for RAID. There are two scenarios: 1) Upgrading an ML370 G2 server that has 6 drives and no RAID. We want to construct it so that we have a RAID-1 C: drive and a RAID-5+1 (or RAID-10) D: drive. 2) Configuring a new ML370 G4 (and 350) with 8 drives (using the cage...

What is the difference between the Compaq FCA2210 (281540-B21) and FCA2214 (281541-B21)? They both look like QLogic 2340 single port 2 gbit PCI-X host adapters. -- Will

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Thanks NutCracker and others for your earlier guidance in the other thread. I just was not able to get the Compaq SmartStart 5.5 cd created by downloading from the HP site to boot. I tried at least 3 downloads and several burns. I have been offerred an original CD but it may be a while till I...

I just acquired a used Compaq R1500 XR UPS. Are the fans supposed to run constantly, even when it's not running on batteries? I used to have a very similar APC UPS, but the fans only ran when the power failed, and it kicked over to battery power. Thanks, Bill Crocker

I'm relativly new to Compaqs and when I got this machine(Proliant 3000 rackmount) a few months ago I booted from SmartStart and followed the instructions and set it up quite easily. I wanted to completely change the drive configuration so I figured the easiest thing to do would be to do a system...

LG have an email address I can get you on ? Thanks, Phil pharwood at bellsouth.net

I have a 8500R. I want to get a RAID array for it. I need to buy a controller card and array. Need about 500gigs. Any sugesstions? I am running redhat exterpise linux

I have a retired 1996-era HP Netserver LX Pro in my garage, which will probably be recycled and/or parted out when I'm finished playing with it. Right now we're trying to make it serve a short-term, low-demand database need. It appears to be operational but there's a small problem: the connector...

Hello there, I want to set up my old proliant 400 with 2 scsi hard drives. For the moment the OS (NT4) is on an IDE drive. When I replace the IDE drive by the SCSI drive, NT4 setup is stops because no hard drives are found (it is possible however to install XP). I suppose this is a controller...

Hi! I'm new to Compaq Servers and equipment That being said, I have recesntly purchased a server and other equipment. I have a Proliant 1500 server with the optional 6/200 dual processor board. The controller is a SMART-2/E who's SCSI external interface is 68pin female.