"El Bandito" wrote Any ways of either running the fans at lower speeds (I was thinking about lowering voltage, since stopping the fans would cause a shutdown) That machine will be in a rack, along with my switch, UPS and a home-made disk array. So it doesn't need...

I have a Gen 1 ML370 with the integrated RAID controller. I have populated this server with five 36.4 gb HDDs and one Fujitsu 36.7 gb HDD. I have used Smart Start 5.5 to configure my server. My two questions aHow do I enable the S.M.A.R.T. on the Fujitsu drive. S.M.A.R.T. is enabled on all the...

Hi all.. A little while ago, I was looking at the array-utils package that is available to monitor the various SmartArray controllers out there and provide various status's on the current state of the controller(s) in your server. So, that got me to wondering if the person that wrote that...

This is a little OT but I have posted on this group several times and feel that it is one of the most professional of the groups. I have been thinking about buying lots of used hardware for resale. I have a friend that has been in the business for 15 years who says that it is a very good...

I have a 150Mhz Prosignia 500 server that I got from work (they got rid of it) and it has a HP Surestore Tape 6000 drive in it which I have been using. Now I am having trouble getting it to read tapes. I went to HP's website and downloaded new firmware for the tape drive but when I run it in DOS...

Hello, I'm searching for a tool to read out the BIOS asset tag from a dl360/dl380. tnx fir helping!

What are the Compaq spare number(s) corresponding to the MSA20 storage enclosure, Option number 335921-B21? -- Will

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...

I have a used DL320 without HD and am unable to get the system to boot from the CD rom. I have added a NTFS formatted HD on IDE 0 and CDrom on IDE 1. When the system starts the Bios do their thing and identify my hd and CDrom but then goes right for the hd and presents an error : NTLDR missing . I...

I currently have an 18G drive (on scsi ID5) in my proliant 3000 P2-400. I am trying to add a 50G ddrive. Upon plugging in the new drive and booting the machine, the server detects the new drive on scsi ID2 and immediately try to start booting from it. Of course there is nothing there and I get...

Hi.. Just wondering if one of these would work on my Proliant 6400R even though it's a much newer drive.. It's the same form factor as my existing setup (1" hot swap) and I might have found a good deal on a couple of them http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2FB240EB -- Rick

Hi Folks, Just wondering if anyone could shed some light as to what might be going on. I tried upgrading my ML330 G1 server from a P3-733 chip to a P3-1Ghz chip. But, I found after installing the chip, and closing up the case, it would power up for a few second and then shutdown, and start...

Suddenly my Super-workstation (ProLiant 3000) running Fedora Core 4 doesn't seem so super. I have a standard 15/30G tape drive connected externally to the onboard SCSI port. I am attempting a backup os 20G (19.383G) to a tape running compression. Now the indicators tell me that the backup will take...

Please help me Because of the age (old) of my system Compaq/HP does not support my system no more. I have an old Presario 9548 that is running on Win95. Well, to be truthful, it is not running anything at all. My system came with a floppy and a CD in the QuickRestore package. I have lot/misplaced...

Ok.. Since you guys like some bantering...(8- I've got a few questions for you.. Now that I've had my 6400R up and running for a while, I think I need to keep my eyes open for a nice backup device for this thing (of the tape variety).. Are the DLT 70Gb drives about as good as you can get for...

I have had a few queries on server performance recently, and I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions: Firstly, how do you guys go about benchamrking an older server. How do you work out what performance benefit you'll get from moving up to a newer server. For instance, if you have 4...

I've picked up a Proliant 5500 server which has a Smart Array 3200 controller in it. I would like to build a logical drive in order to install W2k3 on, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this without loading an operating system on. Is there a way to do this? I've tried loading the o/s onto...

Just picked up my bargain 5500 Xeon machine, and despite what the guy had advertised it had 'Pentium III Xeon' sticker on the front of the tower. So because he advertised it as a Pentium Pro machine it only cost me £4.99 ($9). Briefly popped it open to check which processor it has, and it's a Xeon...

I thought I knew a little about computers until I bought this 1850R to learn more about servers and raid setup. Well I am finding I don't really know anything. I am hoping I can get some assistance here. My first problem is there is only one hard drive in this unit right now and I would just like...

I have a Proliant 5500 with 4 x PIII 500mhz zeons. Is it possible to use the 700mhz 100FSB zeons in this machine?