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From: mike on 3 Jun 2010 08:34 Michael A. Terrell wrote: > mike wrote: > > > > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > > > > Then stick an IDE or SATA controller card in there. They don't have > to run SCSI drives. You may have to change some settings in the BIOS, > but that isn't difficult. Excellent idea, guess I was suffering from some mental blockage; it would just take some creative cable routing to get to the drive bays. I was just looking at it and now recall that I'd figured the memory in it justified the cost of it even if it didn't run, but it does start up and I've looked around in the bios a little bit. However, it only has one processor installed, which is a PIII-S SL5PU. Kind a doubt that it's available any more, guess I'll have to check the docs and see what kind of processors will work in it.
From: mike on 3 Jun 2010 08:41 Michael Kennedy wrote: > > Or Just throw a scsi drive in there and play around with it. They're not > that complicated. Don't run away from something just because you don't know > how it works. Use it as an opportunity to broaden your knowledge. > > Mike The scsi I have has a different connector than the ones in the drive bay. It has a cdrom (it's kind of odd, looks like a laptop cd-drive) that has a connector that's the same as well as a back-plane connector that would fit it, Thanks for the suggestions, I guess I was in need of a push to get around to doing something with it. Another Mike
From: mike on 3 Jun 2010 08:54 Michael A. Terrell wrote: > He didn't say what type of SCSI drive he needed. He may be missing > the trays to hold a SCSI drive, as well. I was just offering a way to > get it running, if everything else was good. The used Dell Power Edge > 4350 I picked up for free last week works, and had three 36 G hard > drives and a gig of RAM. The OS had been wiped, but I plan on using it > as an Apache and Leafnode server. I installed Win 2000 to test the > hardware, but I won't be using that OS. You scored big time for sure. The Proliant came with 512 Mb, and trays that say '36.4 Gb 10K Ultra Scsi'. Unfortunately all the trays are empty :( The connector that the drives plug into are wider than the one on the scsi drive I've got. Thanks for the ideas, Mike
From: Meat Plow on 3 Jun 2010 09:08 On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:54:42 -0700, mike ǝʇoɹʍ: > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > >> He didn't say what type of SCSI drive he needed. He may be missing >> the trays to hold a SCSI drive, as well. I was just offering a way to >> get it running, if everything else was good. The used Dell Power Edge >> 4350 I picked up for free last week works, and had three 36 G hard >> drives and a gig of RAM. The OS had been wiped, but I plan on using it >> as an Apache and Leafnode server. I installed Win 2000 to test the >> hardware, but I won't be using that OS. > > You scored big time for sure. The Proliant came with 512 Mb, and trays > that say '36.4 Gb 10K Ultra Scsi'. Unfortunately all the trays are > empty :( > The connector that the drives plug into are wider than the one on the > scsi drive I've got. > > Thanks for the ideas, > Mike You might want to go to Wikipedia and do a little reading on the history of SCSI devices. I used SCSI in my NT4 workstation back in 1997. There have been several different varieties of SCSI developed in the past decade or so and you'll need to identify the different connectors and how to properly terminate the SCSI chain.
From: AZ Nomad on 3 Jun 2010 11:16
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:15:28 +0900, Michael Kennedy <mike(a)nospam.com> wrote: >"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message >news:6b2dncCN0OpBjJrRnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d(a)earthlink.com... >> >> mike wrote: >>> >>> Michael A. Terrell wrote: >>> >>> > Doesn't it have at least one empty slot where you can install a >>> > better video card? You can use multiple drives without installing a >>> > RAID driver. Don't pitch it out, if it works. >>> >>> Oh, no, I'd never pitch anything out, (unless maybe I tripped over it >>> and broke a toe or somethin') >>> >>> >Play with it. Install a >>> > version of Linux or use it for a test bed computer. You can remove the >>> > rack mount brackets on a lot of server cases and use them as a big >>> > desktop computer, or you can use some scrap lumber an made a crude rack >>> > for it. >>> >>> I guess that the main obstacle is I don't know anything about scsi; >>> there are no drives in the drive bay, and there's a scsi bus but I >>> don't know jack about scsi. I've got a 2.1 Gb scsi drive, and some >>> kind of scsi controller card, but just haven't spent much time looking >>> into it yet. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mike >> >> >> Then stick an IDE or SATA controller card in there. They don't have >> to run SCSI drives. You may have to change some settings in the BIOS, >> but that isn't difficult. >Or Just throw a scsi drive in there and play around with it. They're not >that complicated. Don't run away from something just because you don't know >how it works. Use it as an opportunity to broden your knowledge. Only thing with scsi is you have to address each drive, and have termination at the end of the cable. I ran scsi between 1995 and 2001. The various flavors of scsi (scsi-1, scsi-2, wide, ultrawide, fast, etc.) may make matching controller to drive interesting if they're not already matched. There's at least three different connectors I know of plus varients that are differential or hotswappable. |