and the ProLiant I'll likely be watching periodically - any experience of finding suitable Linux drivers for using such hardware?

For ex. I noted (no manuals yet, maybe coming):
W2K Server IDs it as just 'Proliant' and Intel x86 Family 6, Model 7 550 MHz CPU, with a BIOS date of 12/8/99.
And Ultra-SCSI, apparently via Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m PCI card. Found shown a "Compact Smart Array Controller" listed in hdwre. and among running tasks: "cpqarray" and "cpqarry2".

So I'm wondering if you can even find the necessaries for this prolly pretty fair quality guts - to do Linux, at all? Especially - re the RAID array. I don't yet know how many other proprietary Compaq utils are part of this install.

I'll try to keep them going with the fait accompli; it's there and so far working. But would be nice to know if it could be wiped and reused - if problems arise after it's reconnected to world via ISDN (only current option available, where they are).

The thought of checking for the patch of the week, staying ahead -?- of the most popular script-kiddie attractor extant - I won't relish. (At least they aren't using IIS)



A.

I presumed that the 'Compaq extensions' are well-done and indeed perform well. Am I right to infer from your comment that, the Linux versions are fully equivalent / adequate? ie, if managing W2K-Server, with some added tasks next.. proves either unfathomable (or unbearable):

A ProLiant + RAID array - can be wiped and resurrected, in a (say 'fairly routine' way?) via driver support as exists now? (Not by me, anytime soon - but by a local competent, I mean.)

{sigh} You guys earn yer $. This amateur 'knows' just enough to have generated a Gotcha List already, no doubt incomplete. Any major alterations will need a local pro.

Thanks for the hint,

A.

Sounds perzackly like what I may have inherited, 'document'wise :[ except, they had no BOFH - simply, their node was unplugged from Mother, and left floating. (I may.. get all the stuff that came with the pieces; one of the original install techs sounds copacetic. But promises are cheap.)

And.. (haven't found out how frequent reboots other than, "some") their W2K Server install has seemed to bear out the claim that it's more stable than NT.x But its job had thus been reduced to simply:

A) keeping a "J: drive" (no doubt.. the RAID) accessible to 4 laptops running 98SE, as a common R/W space and, a printer.

B) not eating itself in any permanent way.

(Hell - what was that Multi-DOS program, MPM? - coulda shared files with an old 386.. Switched tasks with Quarterdeck's neat hack.. Seems to be mostly correspondence anyway.) {sigh} Wasted Pro-WhateverTF.

This ran for about 6 mos 'unattended'. The HP DAT - seems to be backing up *something* yet to be explored. Natch I'm not taking the slightest chance of crashing the sucker, as I accumulate info via those colorful and infinite-layered menus. Most with terminology just vaguely altered enough, dumbed-down in that Mickey-Rat way, that - -

BTW - re the ex-Gestapo guy and in general: is there any implied legal obligation in these er "Information-besotted Technologies" that: upon leaving, an admin (must! ??) pass on at least basic operational details *he* has generated? Anything court-actionable, that is ???

('Cause I know what I'd want, in writing *now*, given that there Are BOFHs - obviously older kids now.. who used to have all their toys crushed on alternate weeks by a Dad/Mom from Hell)

Thanks fer moral support.
(Gawd.. if I had to do this for food - prolly starve. Or be jailed for PHB-cide, if that's a crime?)




Ashton
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