On a P600 controller, after rebooting it has inverted all of the logical device numbers! Drives were ID=0 ID=1 and ID=2. The 0 drive is now 2. The 2 drive is now 0. How is this even possible? How can you recover back the original drive order? -- Will

I'm about to setup a Compaq Proliant 850r with the 2 pentiums on board but am afraid I messed up some settings in the boot settings. When I power the machine up it gives me the message that I've got a serial cable error and I have not the slightest idea how to solve this. I need a way to et into...

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...

DK Does anyone know the pinout for the serial cable that is supplied DK with DK the Compaq R6000 ( 6 kW, 6 KVA, rackmount) UPS? I have one, but DK DK don't DK have the serial cable, and would very much like to use the UPS to DK shut DK down a computer when batteries are near exhaustion. DK...

One thing I have noticed recently, as result of the recent discussion on hardware versus software RAID, is that the two drive LUNs we have created through the Smart 5i hardware RAID in the DL380 G3 servers we have are lightning fast by comparison to the same drives mounted JBOD on an...

Hi all, I am trying to set up an addon pci ide card in a proliant 3000. If I install it with a couple of 250G ide drives and leave the scsi drives unplugged during install, then it only boots to the card. If I leave out the pci ide card and plug in the scsi drives and install to them, then the...

This is a thread I originally posted around two years ago, that time I found a workaround, this time I can't figure it out. I have a Proliant 2500 Dual PPro 200, 384Mb, 221 disk controller. The machine will happily boot from CD and run Knoppix, I can run hardware tests from UBD3.3 but it...

Can the MSA500 be converted into an MSA1000 just by adding a fibre port? Are there any architectural or performance differences? -- Will

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 have it, while I'm waiting its arrival via snail mail?

Hi Folks, I have a Proliant 3000 running 5.3 RELEASE which makes a noise like a 747 taking off. I either wish to remove one of the fans, or control them. Does anyone know if there is a mechanism to do this, including running Linux binaries?

Hi, everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could help me out with the problem of memory recognition with a recently purchased ProLiant 1500. I managed to install Slackware 9.1 on it and everything is going smoothly except for memory recognition. I seem to be unable to make Slackware...

Maybe it's interesting for someone (probably not but who knows): I had some spare time and still found no solution for the service partition problem I described in another posting so I did the ridiculous and tested Windows Vista Business on an old ProLiant ML530 Generation 1 server (2x XEON...

I just was talking with someone who said my most recent server, a ML350 G5 could be booted into BIOS and modified remotely via ILO. I admit I have no idea how this works so I'd like to explore more. We got someone at the remote site to plug a cable into the ILO port but beyond that I have no...

"Nigel" wrote Thanks for the reply. You can probably tell by now I have not had much involvement in 'proper' server choices before, and my frustration is showing. You have to start somewhere... It is unfortunate that I work for a company that sees IT infrastructure as an unnecessary...

Hi, I am using HP ML 370 Prolaint Server with Smart array 642 Controller which has one internal SCSI Channel and one external SCSI Channel. What I did was I configured the RAID in external SCSI channel and I installed the Windows Server 2003. Now lots of huge applications is running in that...

After installed Windows 2000 to a DL585, most of the chipset and system devices are showing as unknown. I don't see any chipset driver set on the HP Windows 2000 driver section for DL585: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/20_6016.html Any ideas on where to find the...

We have a Proliant 6400R with four processors installed and 4GB of memory that we wanted to run Windows 2000 on. We installed Windows, and configured devices, without a problem. But for some reason the install did not see the additional processors and installed just a single processor model...

We opened up a trouble ticket on a DL380 G2 with a problem rebuilding a RAID array, and I'm pretty depressed at just how poor HP's service level was. We had no problems with the $39 out of warranty charge for the call but: 1) They charged $39 twice. 2) No one who dealt with us was fluent in...

Can anybody tell me the name of those spring-loaded knurled-headed screws that are press-fitted into the front panels of the ProLiant rack servers, used to secure said beast into said rack? I'm trying to get hold of a few to fill in the holes in a couple of machines and it would help if I knew...