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Problem adding a new hard rrive to a Proliant 800
I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1
and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry...
"Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller
in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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I dont think i could have misspelled version one more time... even if i had
tried ! I am so embarrassed... LC "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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Yes, it has an array controller. It has a Perc 2.
"NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I dont think i could have misspelled version one more time... even if i had tried ! I am so embarrassed... LC "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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oh god... that is just plain sacrilege
A DELL controller in a Compaq? Thats like putting mustard in red wine does your Perc have the latest firmware and bios ? Im suprised the CPQ utilties will see anything on the PERC controller. That is just strange. "which" perc 2 do you have? SC or DC ? AMI based or Adaptec Based? I do have some knowledge of dark-side servers... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... Yes, it has an array controller. It has a Perc 2. "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I dont think i could have misspelled version one more time... even if i had tried ! I am so embarrassed... LC "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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My mistake. Nor a Perc...those are on the Dells, as you said.
It has a controller, but I do not know which one. I have serial numbers for the server, from Compaq, but i have yet to get a straight answer out of them. I tell them what the serial numbers are, and they ask me what hardware do I have? Seems to me they should tell me what HW I have, seein's how they built this beast! Anyways, needless to say this computer is not my only presssing, need to get off my desk in a hurry, handed down from the last guy project i have. He was very good at generating pretty reports, though. Sorry if I rambled, or misled you on the Perc... "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... oh god... that is just plain sacrilege A DELL controller in a Compaq? Thats like putting mustard in red wine does your Perc have the latest firmware and bios ? Im suprised the CPQ utilties will see anything on the PERC controller. That is just strange. "which" perc 2 do you have? SC or DC ? AMI based or Adaptec Based? I do have some knowledge of dark-side servers... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... Yes, it has an array controller. It has a Perc 2. "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I dont think i could have misspelled version one more time... even if i had tried ! I am so embarrassed... LC "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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when the server boots, it should tell you which controller you have (if its
an array controller). What processors are in your machine ? LC "Paul" wrote in message ... My mistake. Nor a Perc...those are on the Dells, as you said. It has a controller, but I do not know which one. I have serial numbers for the server, from Compaq, but i have yet to get a straight answer out of them. I tell them what the serial numbers are, and they ask me what hardware do I have? Seems to me they should tell me what HW I have, seein's how they built this beast! Anyways, needless to say this computer is not my only presssing, need to get off my desk in a hurry, handed down from the last guy project i have. He was very good at generating pretty reports, though. Sorry if I rambled, or misled you on the Perc... "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... oh god... that is just plain sacrilege A DELL controller in a Compaq? Thats like putting mustard in red wine does your Perc have the latest firmware and bios ? Im suprised the CPQ utilties will see anything on the PERC controller. That is just strange. "which" perc 2 do you have? SC or DC ? AMI based or Adaptec Based? I do have some knowledge of dark-side servers... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... Yes, it has an array controller. It has a Perc 2. "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I dont think i could have misspelled version one more time... even if i had tried ! I am so embarrassed... LC "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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I give up...will buy a "Compaq®" drive, RMA these 2 Maxtors, and see if
Compaq will "support" me on this. *mumblessomeshat* "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... when the server boots, it should tell you which controller you have (if its an array controller). What processors are in your machine ? LC "Paul" wrote in message ... My mistake. Nor a Perc...those are on the Dells, as you said. It has a controller, but I do not know which one. I have serial numbers for the server, from Compaq, but i have yet to get a straight answer out of them. I tell them what the serial numbers are, and they ask me what hardware do I have? Seems to me they should tell me what HW I have, seein's how they built this beast! Anyways, needless to say this computer is not my only presssing, need to get off my desk in a hurry, handed down from the last guy project i have. He was very good at generating pretty reports, though. Sorry if I rambled, or misled you on the Perc... "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... oh god... that is just plain sacrilege A DELL controller in a Compaq? Thats like putting mustard in red wine does your Perc have the latest firmware and bios ? Im suprised the CPQ utilties will see anything on the PERC controller. That is just strange. "which" perc 2 do you have? SC or DC ? AMI based or Adaptec Based? I do have some knowledge of dark-side servers... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... Yes, it has an array controller. It has a Perc 2. "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I dont think i could have misspelled version one more time... even if i had tried ! I am so embarrassed... LC "NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... I havent added drives to a compaq server that didnt have an array controller in probably 7 years. I would suggest picking up a cheap controller on eBay. Oh, you didnt mention which version of the 800 you have. HP veriosn, NonHP verision.. PPro 200 verision, PII350 version... LC "Paul" wrote in message ... That was supposed to say Proliant 800...sorry... "Paul" wrote in message ... I have a Compaq Proliant 88 with a single SCSI drive, running Novell 4.1.1 and the drive is out of free space. I purchased a new Maxtor 18 gig SCSI and put it in the computer. The BIOS recognizes the drive when it is booting up, and the Compaq utility correctly sees the drive, but after that, the drive is reported as a 9 gig drive to everything (fdisk, partition magic, server magic, ghost, DOS 6.2 and 7), not the 181 gig drive that it is. I called Compaq, but India, I mean Tech Support told me they could not help me as the drive was a third party drive. I bought 2 of these drives from CDW. They sold these to me as replacement drives for a Compaq Proliant. I have had these drives for 3 weeks now, and have not been able to resolve this issue. Anyone have a similar issue, or can provide me some direction? Thanks! |
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