From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 07:30:04 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 E862116A4D3 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:30:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBAE43D2D for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:30:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6B5BE85690; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:59:59 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:59:59 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brad Message-ID: <20050202072959.GA49172@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <002601c508f4$dc77d350$5508a8c0@LAPTOP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="obRs6g3QSNdgmoVb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002601c508f4$dc77d350$5508a8c0@LAPTOP> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 07:30:05 -0000 --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--