From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 07:01:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBF916A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:01:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout1.accesscomm.ca (mailout1.accesscomm.ca [204.83.142.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07E343D60 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbsmith@accesscomm.ca) Received: from LAPTOP (static24-72-10-80.reverse.accesscomm.ca [24.72.10.80]) j1271tf0018004 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:01:56 -0600 From: "Brad" To: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:00:20 -0600 Message-ID: <002601c508f4$dc77d350$5508a8c0@LAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Proliant 5000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:01:57 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm@toybox.placo.com] Sent: February 2, 2005 12:37 AM To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Brad; Lowell Gilbert; freebsd-questions@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