Proliant 5000

[Brad]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm at toybox.placo.com] 
Sent: February 2, 2005 12:37 AM
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Cc: Brad; Lowell Gilbert; freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
Subject: RE: Proliant 5000



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&it
> em=5747208198&rd=1
> 

>Look at the shipping costs.  That's another $13 before you get
>started.

Damn, there goes the pizza money...  :-)

And to think I actually bought a CGI card back in 1985 for $50!!!

Ted

Hi, sorry for being out of touch for the day (or so...)

The computer has a Smart Array 2DH card. 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.

Thanks for the great info and of course, if anyone has an idea, please
give me
An e-mail.

Brad