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Compaq Proliant 5000
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100% of reviewers $200.00 9.7



Description: The Compaq Proliant 5000 supports up to 4 Pentium Pro CPUs and is equipped with onboard Fast/Wide SCSI-2. CPUs and RAM are mounted on riser cards from the mainboard. Replaceable Voltage Regulator Modules (VRM) also allow for a hot-spare VRM.

Options usually include Compaq Smart-2 SCSI RAID controller and a host-swap drive cage.
Keywords: server, raid, compaq, proliant, smp, scsi, eisa
/sbin/lspci output: 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 01)
00:0f.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82375EB (rev 15)
00:14.0 RAM memory: Intel Corp. 450KX/GX [Orion] - 82453KX/GX Memory controller (rev 04)
00:19.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 450KX/GX [Orion] -
Chipset: Intel 450KX/GX


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Old 11-04-2003, 11:01 AM   #1
mcleodnine
 
Registered: May 2001
Distribution: s l a c k w a r e
Posts: 2,731
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $150.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22
Distribution: Slackware



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Install can be a bother if you have not yet installed the Compaq diagnostics/setup tools and the RAID array manager.

With 2.4.22 I have noticed that the onboard SCSI controller (not the RAID card) performs much better with the ncr53c8xx (~= 14MB/s) driver rather than the sym53c8xx one (~=3MB/s!). At least that was my experience with the attached Seagate 10K Cheetahs.
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Old 11-15-2003, 02:22 PM   #2
Juno D
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: SmoothWall 2.0 Orient
Posts: 1
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $300.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.20-smp
Distribution: Gentoo


When doing any distro for the first time you will need to point vmlinuz to how much RAM you have. Eg:

mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=255M@1M
#This is my code because I only have 256M of RAM
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Old 11-25-2003, 12:14 AM   #3
dilweed
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 1
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $150.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: Red Hat 9


Review:
I purchased the system with Red Hat 9 installed on it with no problems (4 x 4.3 gig drives as a 15 gig drive and 768 megs of RAM).

Plea for help:
I'm now attempting to put Solaris 9 and Slackware-current on it (not at the same time). I want to reconfigure the RAID array, but I don't think I have the RAID manager tools installed. When I hit F10 at the prompt it says software not available. I think it's just a striped set right now, but I want to go to RAID 5. Does anyone have any information about accessing / configuring / installing the RAID manager for the SMART 2/P Controller?
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