Well I stopped by the only electronics store here in Okinawa (that i know of any ways) and waltzed in the back room where they keep a lot of thier used computer stuff. I seen these two servers and raid setup sitting there and I just ask one of the guys if they work. Well he rattles something off in japanese that i only under stood half of but the jist of it was they havn't been tested and 2000 yen (less than $20) they were mine. So I though about it, the visions of Tux popped into my head. Any ways enough yammer, Picture time! Two Compaq Proliant 5000 servers and one Proliant Storage System F1 We'll start with the Storage system Sports 7 4.3gb Wide Ultra SCSI 2 drives. 1 Modular power supply (Place for two and unknown wattage atm) 3 exaust fans and Controller card I do not have an Ext cable to test and see if the storage device works, will have to see if the electronics store has one tomorrow.
pics dont work. But I'd gladly sacrifice every computer I own and access to others to live in Okinawa
^^, heck, even if the thing doesn't work, the SCSI drives will go for more than that on eBay. Awesome find
The servers The servers are HUGE. The are over 2ft high and VERY heavy. Though the storage system is heavy as well Both sport Pentuim Pro 200mhz CPU's but one has 2 and the other has 4! I will just show pics of whats in the one with 4 due to they are both pretty simaler. they also both have a Floppy drive, 4/8gb Dat drive, and a CD-Rom (DAT and CD drives are SCSI also). They both also have 4 slots for the same type trays that are in the storage system. On the inside we find each having a 3Com nic (the system with 4 cpu's has a PCI and the one with 2 has an ISA), and a Large SCSI controller card that I still need to find info on. Bracket holding every thing in place as well as a pretty elaberate power switch that does not allow the system to be turned on when the side is off. Bracket removed, lets check it out! The CPU card (2EA) RAM board (2EA) SCSI card which also connects to the board. I thought this was rather funny. Tis on the SCSI card. The Labels on the inside of the case door. They show the needed requirements to make the system work properly and let me tell ya, after what testing i could do atm, these are VERY picky.
Testing Testing. The only testing i could do atm was basically to boot it up and see what happened. To be perfectly honest, this is my first chance ever to really work with a full SCSI system, so my knowledge is very limited. Having said that, I tried putting in some of the drives from the storage system but it didn't seem that there was any thing on them. I didn't want to install linux on these just yet due to not knowing if there was on the drives. I also would like to use all 7 drives and correct me if i am wrong but i was thinking that i could install the OS on the drives when they are all in the storage system. Any who, Pics of the boot and diag screens. Well that is all I think I can do for now untill i get that EXT cable. Though if any one has more knowledge than I please fill me in on some info.
Holy cow, get these things going. Doing something, they're worth it! Your geek points just shot up into the triple digits, btw
LoL, well thank you. Wish my wife knew the geek point system! She is about to kill me from all the stuff I do. And this http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=104045 isn't helping Desk Setup
I second Aduno - this is really cool stuff... be sure to post pics if you get anything running on them! Here's a site with plenty of info on SCSI if you need it
Thanks for the info site, I most definatly might need it and an Up date, i put in 4 of the 7 drives into the quad cpu machine and when it boot up it has a problem with SCSI IDs 0,1, and 2. And it doesn't matter what order i put the drives in. it seems to find ID 3 which is the very top one. Any one know if maybe there is a key to press to configure the controller or maybe some other ways to test this ?
I think your wife has the patience of a saint lol I cant comment on SCSI, i dont know what it is other than its not IDE or SATA
no terminators, just a cable that goes straight from the scsi card to the array backplane. I just finally finished downloading smartstart (compaq's configuration cd for these servers) so soon as i can get it burned i will update. Also i have not had any luck finding a cable around here. picked up 2 68pin -> 50pin Sun micro system cables. Any one know if i would be able to splice these? Also if its just a pin to pin connection? (e.g. pin 1 > 1, 2>2, 3>3, etc)
Just a quick overdue up-date. I have taken two SUN microsystem SCSI cables and spliced them together (34 pairs is a B#^@h to splice) to hook the storage array to the Quad server. I now have Slackware 10.2 installed and am slowly working on secureing it on the system. If any one has any ideas on how i could benchmark these please let me know.
