"MattD.." wrote in message
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On Saturday 01 May 2004 16:39, the murky waters churned and seethed, the
dark weeds parted and the water took on the sinister, shifting visage of
NuT CrAcKeR. The great maw opened and the following was heard:

To the best of my knowledge, there is no USB hearders on that server.

Not even internally?

no, not even internally. HPaq isnt really big on providing internal headers
to things. You might be thinking of motherboard architectures you would find
in a PC... To give you some perspective, even the DL360 G1 has a space on
the system board reserved for USB, but no header. Its a shame really,
because the pizza-boxes are ideal for them.

There is an easy way to check without a risk to your uptime: look at the
back of the server.

That's what prompted the question. No USB ports on the back, but the dmesg
lines indicating the presence of an Intel USB device. I'll assume it's an
unimplemented chipset feature...

You should be able to make due with removing the USB support from the
kernel and recompiling.

...and do just this.

Yes, you should have a 3200 or better, and also there is nothing
preventing you from ADDING a usb card to the server if you wish.

Yep, that was my thinking, although with five hot-plug PCI slots to play
with, I would rather have had USB on the board and a slot free for other
things. I will get around to a better RAID controller (I think I'll just
get the 4200 anyway. There seem to be enough of them around) one of these
days, at which point I'll bit the bullet, recompile my kernel without
device uhci and replace the controller all at once. For now I'll just pipe
dmesg through grep in my .cshrc so the uhci0 lines don't appear in front
of
the beancounters ;o)

dont let the hotplug slots lead you astray. all it means is that if a card
that is already installed fails, you can replace it with an identical card
without downing the server. Its a nice feature for sure, but the only place
i would consider actually using a hotplug card would be for an HBA to a SAN
(in a mulitpath configuration) or for redunant NIC's or (cringe) Array
controllers.

Unless you have driped some serious cash on the rest of your infrastructure
and hardware, hotplug slots are kinda a fallacy.


Thanks for the advice.

You are welcome, glad I could help.

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MattD..
mattd145 at onetel dot com