Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:59:59 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad <wbsmith@accesscomm.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 Message-ID: <20050202072959.GA49172@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <002601c508f4$dc77d350$5508a8c0@LAPTOP> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEDFFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <002601c508f4$dc77d350$5508a8c0@LAPTOP>
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--obRs6g3QSNdgmoVb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] I'm really puzzled how the quotation levels got the way they were. On Wednesday, 2 February 2005 at 1:00:20 -0600, Brad wrote: > On February 2, 2005 12:37 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>>> >>>> http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/159/159.html >>> >>> Yes, this is about the age I was expecting. The specs are pretty >>> close to my 6500. I didn't realize, that the older RAID cards were >>> EISA, but it's not clear from the article whether they were shipped >>> with the 5000. >>> >> >> No it isn't clear - thing is though that most of those servers were sold >> by VARS (the sister company of the ISP I work at used to be a Compaq VAR >> and now is an HP VAR) and there was no default factory configuration >> because the VAR was supposed to analyze the customer's network and quote >> the appropriate parts. >> >> Unfortunately however as you might have guessed the PCI cards were at >> least a grand more than the EISA cards and so customers being customers, >> far too many of these were quoted and built with the cheaper EISA card. >> Many also were upgrade sales of older Compaq 4500's and they just sold >> the chassis and cpu's and ram, and moved the disks and raid card >> wholesale from one to the other. >> >>>> If he has an EISA raid card in there he can replace it with one of >>>> these: >>>> >>>> >>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56091&item=5747208198&rd=1 >>> >> >>> Look at the shipping costs. That's another $13 before you get >>> started. >> >> Damn, there goes the pizza money... :-) > > Hi, sorry for being out of touch for the day (or so...) > > The computer has a Smart Array 2DH card. As I mentioned a couple of times, this is the card I'm using. It's also the one in the (repeatedly broken) URL above. > It is in fact PCI based so now I don't know what to do. First > however, I think I will try a different slot And see if that does > something. Then I do have a different array controller And will try > that one. Do you have a 4.10 CD available? That's what I used for installation. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --obRs6g3QSNdgmoVb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAIF3IubykFB6QiMRAggrAJ97t0ytY1G+Ruv77oRcBJP7DY8HEwCeOtsB 954jOoaL0YwDHPQU7kNppwY= =MjJu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --obRs6g3QSNdgmoVb--
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