[frgeek-michiana] Re: Compaq Proliant 800 server
- From: "Rick L. Tribble" <rtribble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:13:09 -0500
Is it an old power hungry monster? Small hard drives?
If so, then yes, do the world a favor...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu Feb 02 10:17:34 2006
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Compaq Proliant 800 server
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
At 11:54 AM 2/1/06, you wrote:
>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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