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David,
I'm sorry you're having so much trouble. For what you do for all of us
Midrangers, this doesn't seem fair at all. But to put a bit of a positive
spin on it - this should reinforce once again why most of us love our
400's!
Bill
David Gibbs
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02/13/2003 04:47 AM
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Folks:
Unforunately, the hardware upgrade is NOT going well.
The new system arrived yesterday and, while I was transplanting the
hardware, I noticed that the PCI slots for the devices were not the same as
the old system.
Turns out that they implemented a new standard for PCI hardware ... one
based on 3.3 volts as apposed to 5 volts.
Well, the end result is: the scsi card and raid controller that protect the
data on the system are not compatible with the new system. I'm not even
sure I can find a SCSI card that supports 50 pin SCSI 2 devices. :(
Obviously this is not acceptable ... so I called Dell and got an RMA to
return the system. I then transferred the main components of the server
back to the old hardware.
Murphy, being the optimist that he is, decided that he wasn't done with me
... now the OLD hardware failed. I could not get video sync and there
were some troublesome beeps on power up.
I did the standard troubleshooting steps, swapped memory around, removed
cards for a bare configuration, nothing seemed to work.
It was almost 9pm by this time, so I decided to transfer the components
BACK to the new computer (which I figured would probably work) and brought
the system up. Luckily it did work, and the system came up with few
issues.
I have to review my options at the moment to see what the best course of
action is ... I may have to use one of my other systems to run midrange.com
until I can find a viable replacement for the new hardware.
david
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