I vote to pull the plug on this box, identify and retain useful parts
then deman the rest. If anyone has a use for the server, speak up
before we scrap it.
Tom
Ok, VERY mixed results on it last night...
Dban doesn't see the drives on the array, no biggie...
I haven't been able to get ANY disto I have so far to see all the drives on it... Why?
The Compaq Smart Array-2DH RAID controller is *NOT* the problem....
<Quoting Suse-Slox-e list>
Hello, Mike.
Your problem isn't the 2DH controller; it's the rest of the machine. I used to have a Proliant 2500 with a 2DH, and it ran just fine. However, I did try to set up SuSE 8.x Pro on a 1600 a few months back, and after much digging, found out that it was going to be far more trouble than it was worth. By the time I'd disabled the on-board NIC, and the serial ports, and the mouse port, and still had to monkey with boot time kernel settings, I admitted defeat, and wound up putting W2K on that box. </quote>
In researching this...
I found numerous messages about various Linux distros NOT being able to find all available memory.. That was traced back to BIOS issues on the Compaq Motherboard (not known if they are fixed or not). They do have a work around for it.
In my testing last night, I was able to run the Compaq Smart software to config the array, config the machine etc but as the Linux partition software sets up the partitions, the config is blown away and the machine dies...
So I can get this machine to work on Linux but it's gonna be a serious S&M exercise to do it. Honestly, it's only a PII-350... We have plenty of other machines that are a whole lot easier to work with. I would make the recommendation we take out the raid controller / drives and say forget the rest of it.
The same message quoted above even goes on to say to pull the controller and put it into another machine. I need to identify if the controller is PCI or EISA... It it's the latter, unless we HAVE a machine that supports EISA, it's not worth the trouble.
Thoughts?
Goose
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