Come, on guys .... I need a challenge. - LC

Are the drive trays of a Proliant DL380, 380 G2, RA4000 and RA4100 interchangeable? Do they fit mechanically, are the backplanes identical? I've seen white(ish) and black ones... Did HP/Compaq ever change them? If so, when? All hints welcome, maybe someone has a link to a...

Is it possible to convert a DL380 G2 with SCSI to instead use SATA or SAS? What are the part numbers for that conversion? -- Will

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,...

Hi, I have a Proliant 1600 with a Smart Array 3200 controller and two 9.1 GB disks in a RAID 1 mirror. The controller recently failed and I have replaced it. Now when the system boots it gives me the following error: "Smart Array 3200 controller (rev A , v 4.16) 0 Logical Drives 1785-Slot 5 Drive...

Hello there, Trying to reinstall the old mailsserver from my work, it's a Compaq ML350 G2 Rackmount. When I use the firmware Maintenance 7.50 CD to do a complete firmware update, I'm getting a kernel panic while the disc is beeing read. This is the error; Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs...

I have RAID5+1 and the spare has just been activated. In slots 4 and 5 I have a mirror and I want to break the mirror and use one of the drives as the spare for the RAID5+1. That would work fine if I could reboot the server but I cannot. Can I just pull the drive out of slot 5 while "hot" and...

When we run the Event Notification wizard on our DL380 G3, when we try to select events to monitor and click OK, the application closes and fails to accept the changes. When we do not make any changes to the list of events (leave the default which is all events), the service runs and will email...

Kevin, I tried replying to your email from comcast.net and it was returned saying: Reason: not our customer. I suspect you just used an old email address. You asked: In another thread you described a problem w/ a DL580 not powering up (on for a second then off again). I'm having the same trouble...

Okai here is the problem. Ive plugged in the controller, and then connected a MSA30 Bay, then i added 12 x 18GB 10K Compaq HDD's and made a RAID10 array. Problem is i only get 10MB/s in write, that i would say is pretty poor. All drivers are up to date and raid controller has been ROM updated too,...

My old ML-330 servers email me when one of the hard drives in the RAID fails but my DL380's do not. Where do I configure this? Thanks! -Bob

Gang, Since nothing Compaq is "happening" Found this cute short on Youtube. Foster portrays himself as a drunk airline pilot. A guaranteed chuckle, Phil The Airline Pilot Dean Martin & Foster Brooks.

Need badly a recoveryCD for the Smartstation Docking station for the Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Please a copy of this CD Thanks

I have a Compaq Proliant 1850R. I'm running the System Configuration Utility (SCU) from the 4 diskette set. When I select Drive Array Configuration from the System Configuration menu it ask for the 'Drive Array Configuration' diskette. Where do i get this diskette? I cannot locate this on Compaq's...

Does anyone know how to measure the power consumption of a compaq proliant 6500? I'm trying to figure out how much it costs me in electrical bills. thanks!

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

LC, or a resident 6400 expert, I was going to scrap that 6400 (some of that Chicago stuff), but after looking at it I didn't have the heart. It had 4 Gig ram, 4 550 Xeon cpu's, not sure if 1 or 2 meg cache each, 2 raid cards. After doing some reading I noticed an article saying the 6400 could be...

Merry Christmas everyone !

I was given a Proliant 1600 here at work. Was also given two, new in-box IMD LCD displays. Could not figure out how to connect till I noticed a picture of one on Ebay with what's called a Y-Cable. Splits the ribbon cable down to two smaller connectors. Those connectors I assume connect to the...

Just bought a Proliant 5500 and need the Smartstart 5.5 or below iso file. Compaq kindly told me this but also kindly forget to say you have to buy it and get it vial snail mail. I need to set this server up really quickly and judging from some of the posts this CD can take nearly a week to...