"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Michael Kennedy wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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mike wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Doesn't it have at least one empty slot where you can install a
better video card? You can use multiple drives without installing a
RAID driver. Don't pitch it out, if it works.

Oh, no, I'd never pitch anything out, (unless maybe I tripped over it
and broke a toe or somethin')

Play with it. Install a
version of Linux or use it for a test bed computer. You can remove
the
rack mount brackets on a lot of server cases and use them as a big
desktop computer, or you can use some scrap lumber an made a crude
rack
for it.

I guess that the main obstacle is I don't know anything about scsi;
there are no drives in the drive bay, and there's a scsi bus but I
don't know jack about scsi. I've got a 2.1 Gb scsi drive, and some
kind of scsi controller card, but just haven't spent much time looking
into it yet.

Thanks,
Mike


Then stick an IDE or SATA controller card in there. They don't have
to run SCSI drives. You may have to change some settings in the BIOS,
but that isn't difficult.

Or Just throw a scsi drive in there and play around with it. They're not
that complicated. Don't run away from something just because you don't
know
how it works. Use it as an opportunity to broden your knowledge.


He didn't say what type of SCSI drive he needed. He may be missing
the trays to hold a SCSI drive, as well. I was just offering a way to
get it running, if everything else was good. The used Dell Power Edge
4350 I picked up for free last week works, and had three 36 G hard
drives and a gig of RAM. The OS had been wiped, but I plan on using it
as an Apache and Leafnode server. I installed Win 2000 to test the
hardware, but I won't be using that OS.



Good point. I forgot that servers have those trays to hold the hdd's..
I've been out of the PC game going on 2 years now. I really miss working on
anything. Time for a job change. My passion is building and repairing
things. When I finally get back to Florida maybe I can.