[rescue] FS (historical?) PPro 180 or 200, with VRM

[Ryan Thoryk]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> Oh yeah...! well I have a Proliant 6400 with 4 550Mhz Xeons and 2MB
> of cache each.  4GB of RAM, an RiLOE card, and a SmartArray 4200 as
> my main fileserver.  I have 3 RAID 5 arrays... 4 x 18, 7 x 18, and 7
> x 18.  I have the option of 7 x 36.  :-P
>
> Pentium Pro indeed!... :-)  The 1MB cache chips are nice man.
>
> Of course I just gave away 2 6400's, a 6500, a DL 380, a DL 580R, and
> an 1850R to a friend.
>
> Andrew

The original server I had here used to be a dual PPro-200 (had a really 
big SuperMicro P6DNF motherboard
Pics here:
http://www.tliquest.net/ryan/pictures/Old%20Server/

The current machine (got it for free in fall 2004) is a Compaq Proliant 
6500 (2x500mhz P3 Xeon, Quad capable, 1.8gb RAM, etc).  At the previous 
owner's home, it had about 19 scsi drives (most were full-height drives 
lol), and eventually that machine combined with some others tripped a 
breaker (using over 15 amps in that room is *a lot* of juice). Right now 
it has 7 drives total (I have the backup drives automatically shut off 
after usage to save power) and I also pulled out the redundant power 
supply and 3 of the fans to save power (checked cooling during it, and it 
was fine).  But with all the fans and both power supplies in it, that 
thing is a monster (it's a 7U rackmount machine).
Here's the pics I have of it (most of the pics are when me and another 
guy were installing it - my favorite is the shots of the fully-loaded 
ram board):
http://www.tliquest.net/ryan/pictures/Proliant%206500/

Ryan Thoryk
Unix and Network Specialist
ryan at tliquest.net