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Jeffrey Alsip wrote: I hadn't really heard of that before. I assume I can find this by searching Freesco on the web. http://www.freesco.org/ How much memory is required? A whopping 8MB of RAM, but it takes 20MB to run everything on a ramdisk. Runs OK on a 16MHz 386sx, runs like a bat out of hell on a 486. |
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Now I've actually found *2* of these things:
P3: DIL20 header with one pin missing (polariser) P4: DIL14 header with one pin missing (polariser) Both are individually marked "LCD", so what's the difference, if any? That's curious. I have two of these IMD's here in front of me. One is out of a 2500, and the other is out of a 3000. They both have a single 34 pin (with one pin blocked out) ribbon cable. I am hoping that the 20pin and 14pin headers that you found are directly side by side, making one 34pin header. If this is the case, then you should have no trouble. Now... what does this give you? The LCD will be lit and functioning as long as the power cable is plugged in...even with the system powered down. During boot up, it will echo all of the posting steps (CPU initialization, memory test, etc.) even before the display is initialized. After bootup it will provide you with quick easy access to any error messages incurred during boot (the arrow keys will navigate through the list). During normal operation, you can install the Integrated Management Display Utility, from the ProLiant Support Pack, and setup a custom default display of your choice. My 3000's are setup to display this information during normal running: Line 1) System Name Line 2) System Time Line 3) CPU Usage (a bar graph and %) Line 4) Main Menu Of course there are many other options. You may wish to display a graph of memory usage, for example. If the server experience a catastrophic failure, you will get a readout of what happened (as long as the power cord is plugged in and hot) enabling you to take action before you power up the system again. it would be nice to see this the easy way - just plug in a display and let 'er rip. Just remove the power cord, plug the display into the header, and reinsert the power cord. If you immediately see the backlight and the words "Compaq ProLiant 1600", then the ripping has begun! Let me know if you need of of my spare IMD's...I'm sure we can work something out better than ebay's shipping charges. Jeff |
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In article u, . wrote:
Now THAT is odd. The connectors on mine are side-by-side, all right, but laterally, not longitudinally as in your case, so it looks as if it's only meant to take a DIL20 or a DIL14 IDC header: [1::::::::20] P3 [14:::::1] P4 Pin 19 is the polariser for P3, and Pin 12 the polariser for P4. Quite a different thing to what you have there. Just a stupid thought.. What if for space reasons, they use a split cable, with one end having a single 34 pin header on the IMD side and the other end split into two pieces to plug into both of these headers? -- Rick |
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.. wrote: Hoooweeee I wanna play with that. I just scored a Proliant 7000 with the Xeon 400MHz motherboard off ebay for $117 an hour ago, which I'm going to pick up tomorrow afternoon Bring a hand truck and a buddy. They are heavy... |
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In article , rickf@ca-
flower.com says... In article u, . wrote: Now THAT is odd. The connectors on mine are side-by-side, all right, but laterally, not longitudinally as in your case, so it looks as if it's only meant to take a DIL20 or a DIL14 IDC header: [1::::::::20] P3 [14:::::1] P4 Pin 19 is the polariser for P3, and Pin 12 the polariser for P4. Quite a different thing to what you have there. Just a stupid thought.. What if for space reasons, they use a split cable, with one end having a single 34 pin header on the IMD side and the other end split into two pieces to plug into both of these headers? -- Rick That makes sense. I've asked the guy selling them what the headers look like. |
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Facts about the Proliant 7000:
1) Your average braking distance going down the M5 at 130km/h is increased by around 40 metres; 2) Engaging low range 4WD is of some assistance when leaving the seller's driveway and trying to climb uphill; 3) Having steel-capped boots is of immense help when leaving the edge of the server firmly sitting on your friend's toes while you reach for the tailgate on the truck; 4) It makes the concrete floor of my office creak when you place it down; 5) Powering up, it sounds like a plane taking off; 6) It weighs the same as a plane; 7) It's about the same size as a plane; 8) It's better engineered than a plane, and you don't have to have a body search when you power it up; 9) If anyone ever breaks into the office, this is one item they sure won't be casually walking out through the door with, not even if they had the foresight to bring along their own surgical truss. I have to admit I'm impressed by this machine - the level of detail and the construction - nothing to apologise about even though it's "retired" gear. It's fitted with 2 Xeon 400 CPUs, but in a couple of days I'll have 8 4.3GB drives in caddies (cost all of $27) and another 4 CPUs complete with 4 VRMs (cost all of $20.50 for the entire lot) coming up from Melbourne, and will fit it out, add some more RAM to take it to a Gig, and build a very nice file/mail server out of it once I get a bay's worth of 36, 50, or 72 GB drives. We really have to give thanks to Micro$oft for making people only want the latest and greatest fatware and the desktop machines that it needs to run on. Makes it so much easier for people like me, who realise that mission-critical stuff needs to run on *NIX systems, be able to pick up "obsolete" equipment for next to nothing. |
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In article u, . wrote:
Facts about the Proliant 7000: 1) Your average braking distance going down the M5 at 130km/h is increased by around 40 metres; 2) Engaging low range 4WD is of some assistance when leaving the seller's driveway and trying to climb uphill; 3) Having steel-capped boots is of immense help when leaving the edge of the server firmly sitting on your friend's toes while you reach for the tailgate on the truck; 4) It makes the concrete floor of my office creak when you place it down; 5) Powering up, it sounds like a plane taking off; 6) It weighs the same as a plane; 7) It's about the same size as a plane; 8) It's better engineered than a plane, and you don't have to have a body search when you power it up; 9) If anyone ever breaks into the office, this is one item they sure won't be casually walking out through the door with, not even if they had the foresight to bring along their own surgical truss. Too funny.. That's what I thought that machine must be like.. I'm very happy w/ my new machine as well.. They're built like tanks and you're getting an amazing set of engineering for your $$ (in my case $50US). If I were you, I'd look into pre-paying the electric bill for that puppy.. You might need your own substation to power it properly (8- |
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