[rescue] alpha server 1000 4/266 info needed

[Michael A. Turner]

	The digital unix seems only to exist far enough to get NT to boot.
which is not suprising becuase this is the way that other alpha's of the
same type of model are in getting linux to boot. I actually have a version
of digital unix in the box that I may install. I think she thought it was a
unix box as the scsi terminator on the back was loose so the chain was not
terminated. This caused the box to hang at a DU screen as it scanned the
scsi bus over and over. Reseating the terminator fixed this problem. I just
mentoined linux becauseI know I can re-install with that as I have done it
on other alpha's, just not using the ARC bios but the other one whose name
escapes me right now.
	
	Good point on max size and the hot swapping, I may have assumed to
much. The drives look like every other digital sled I have ever seen with
the big wide connector on the back so I suspect that they are close to
universal. If nothing else I would love to get my hands on the blanks that
go in these slots for when their is no drive as the bays are exsposed right
now. My expereince is that trying to track down hard drive sleds can be a
REAL pain in the ass. I spent over a year looking for sleds for an axil raid
enclosure and finally found exactly three. Even then to get them I had to
buy another raid enclosure, luckly it came with the raid card cage and one
raid enclosure. Now I just have to figure out how to make it work. Ideally I
would love to hook it to this Alpa, anyone got a manual they can scan and
send my way?

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Meredith [mailto:hmv at meredithm.fsnet.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:51 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] alpha server 1000 4/266 info needed


On Friday 21 September 2001 17:20, you wrote:
> 	So it boots all the way to NT (she thought it was unix) It also has
> some digital unix on it and an arc Bios. I believe that redhat 7.1
> would go on here just peachy keen. Now to my questions (enough

Don't be so quick to ditch DU --- it's a pretty good Unix. Especially 
if you've got the license for the AdvFS extended utilities.

> 	This server also has the hot swap hard drive bays in it. I would

They may not be hot swap. Certainly I've been told that the bays in a 
2100 aren't (although I haven't checked myself).

> LOVE to add the other 5 drives to this system. I saw on E-bay similar
> drive bays for the 2100 series but I am unsure if the hard drive
> sleds cross populate or not. Can I use any old digital hard drive

Almost certainly. Take out the drive and take a digital photo of it, 
and make it available, and I daresay there's a whole bunch of people 
who can confirm what you've got.

> Also what is the max size of a hard drive that I can put into them?

What's the maximum size of a SCSI hard drive ?

> Compaq lists max internal storage at 28gigs for the 1000. I assume
> that this means 4 gigs a sled (28 gigs / 7 sleds)but I may be wishing

I'd assume that the listed maximum internal storage was produced when 
you couldn't get SBB's bigger than 4Gbytes. I can't see a reason why it 
shouldn't take any size disk, unless you've got some funky RAID 
controller.
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