I Flunked UP the SCSI and OS on this Compaq DL380 Gen1 - 904

[@kingneutron1]

Oh you can't leave us hanging like that - now we NEED a part 2 where we discover how you fixed it! :-)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi kingneutron1 Sorry :-) there are hours of trying to fix the problem that did not make it to the video,, and then I gave up,, and had to admit my defeat and get on with my day :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@bendyinkmachinefan2659]

Now you are making me feel old Morten those Compaq DL380 Gen 1's and scsi san's were the first servers and storage arrays i ever worked with I have actually brought a lot of server hardware from Bargain Hardware and they are not far from where i live either i can definitely highly recommend them through my experience of using them

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well I worked with Compaq servers before the DL380,,, :-) glad to hear that Bargain Hardware is a good company.

[@victorbart]

You need a Compaq Smartstart CD-ROM. With that cd you can configure all the Compaq parts and compaq raid controllers. Really cool to see the disk array. I had one back in 2005 or something. ML370 with 7x 36gb compaq diskshelf with 14x 36gb and a dell disarray 12x 18gb (I have this unit back, im collecting 73gb 15K drives for it 😀)

[@danw1955]

Correct! The SmartStart CD will allow you to assign various hardware addresses/boot order/etc. for all your stuff. I had a similar machine back in the day, but a Gen2 I believe, and that CD was indispensable for setup operations!😉

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Victor Bart - RETRO Machines Thank You very much! I spent an hour searching for the Smartstart CD,, I do have one somewhere.. :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@douglaskinsella5610]

Links to all the goodies you need... community.hpe.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-Netservers/SmartStart-CD-s-for-DL380-G1-servers/td-p/433099#.Xg-BxIw_WhA

[@xfactores1265]

Just bought a Dell R620 from Bargain Hardware ! Great packaging and the server works like a charm ! Not my first server from them, they're a good reselling company.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi x factores Thank You very much! very happy to hear that :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@dj-raz2369]

I actually bought a Dell Poweredge R710 a month ago from Bargain Hardware and it works great the shiping was the best they jused like molded foam and it works great ! and i have had no problems and it loks great inside

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi RasseBerg Thank You very much! I am glad to hear that,, I am ever so nerverse to promote a company, that I have never visited,, so your feedback is highly appreciated. :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@grahamleiper1538]

Have used Bargain Hardware. Got a couple of HP Z400s from them last year and an E5-1620v2 a couple of weeks ago. Probably a good match for your channel.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Graham Leiper Thank You very much! I do sure hope so :-) be sure to remember to get that modest discount, if you shop at Bargain Hardware again. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@BigRyanGamesMinecraft]

Just purchased a dl360 g7 from bargain hardware. Great value and excellent service!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi BigRyanGames Thank You very much! Glad to hear that,, but now you know how to get 5% off on extra stuff :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@depianodokter8926]

Thanks for the tip. I have just bought an IBM x3650 model 2 from them.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi De piano dokter Thank You very much! NO you bought the Awesome x3650 M2 :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@plasmar1]

this video summarizes my short lived but basic experience with scsi:P #canrelate.... the adaptec angers me:P........I am nothing but grateful for how this side of computer tech has improved from days of having to enter configuration info for drives to jumper less hardware (motherboards, drives and everything else) that overall just work within reason

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi plasmar1 Thank You very much! Yes it has for sure gotten easier along the way. :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@djspecialpaul]

Nice -> i use sometimes SCSI-Drives for my AKAI Sampler and it works very nice.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi specialpaul Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@cjhawk67]

Man those old compaq servers are my favorite ive been rummaging through ewaste centers for a long time trying to find one for $10-$12 hopefully I get my hands on a ML330 G1 or a DL380 like yours.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi cjhawk67 Thank You very much! try your luck on Ebay,, sometimes they pop up there :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@stevec00ps]

You just needed a terminator on the back of the disk shelf with the inbuilt SCSI adapter!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Steve Cooper Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@Trooper_Ish]

I really like Bargain Hardware here in the UK. I have only got a couple of drives and components, but they seem pretty good for building systems

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thank you very much, I am glad to hear that.

[@HuMaNiTaRiAn1]

+1 this, not sure how shipping will be overseas but from within the UK their parts are pretty much the cheapest you can get, way cheaper than even ebay.

[@Trooper_Ish]

@@HuMaNiTaRiAn1 I think they sell on ebay too, but at least you know second hand stuff from them isn't junk/rip-off

[@MyPlayHouse]

The do sell on Ebay,, have seen that,, wonder if it's cheaper to buy directly,, as Ebay also wants a cut..

[@Trooper_Ish]

@@MyPlayHouse yeah, even if same price, better for BH to get the ebay cut

[@slidetoc]

I got my Dell R610 for a really good price from them. Highly recommend.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Carl Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@kna60]

Well Morten, it's reassuring for me as a cardboard sysadmin to see that even skilled professionals with years of experience like you can make these kinds of mistakes ;)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi kna60 Thank You very much! but I can assure you, that it pisses me off that i did that :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@CoMmAnDrX]

I used to have a Compaq Proliant 2500 (NON-RACK) Server. Sadly I lost that gem is a fire. It served as my Web/Email server in the early 2000's

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi CommandrX Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@equinoxfpv173]

Bought my R710 from them. Nothing but good things to say about them.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Equinox FPV Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@Sbellins1109]

Hi, i've buyed 2 server from bargainhardware and if ou sendd back a server you dont pay the shipping because it's an RMA and they send the delivery man to your home for free. (i''m in italy and the shpping cost are around 25euro from their site). BTW, i also have a question, in your experience, is it possible to iw a das that not consume a lot?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Sbellins1109 Thank You very much! That is good to know :-) There are small end user DAS's like: amzn.to/2YukqoU that comsume a lot less power. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@stevenspasstime5339]

I love old vintage servers. Would love to have something like this into my collection. I have an old ibm tower server with dual pentium 3 pricessors

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Steven Thank You very much! I use to also have some of those gigant towers as well :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@SakuraChan00]

IBM Netfinity 5000 ? i had one

[@simonvannarath]

If you figure it out, make a part 2!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well it's not broken broken,, I just messed up the boot and OS..

[@kennethsrensen7706]

I had a similary proliant server in Denmark. You can easy run the drive bay on the internal SCSI controller , thats actually why you have the SCSI connetor on the back. You need to set a jumper on the motherboard and set it up in the bios to function also remember to set each drives SCSI adress on the drive itself otherwise it will conflict and thus you cant see the drives. You didnt need to remove the network card at all. you have 2 unused PCI slot , you just put the adaptek in one of those if want to use that one ( I had this adaptec too ) To make it work you need to config the adaptek as a secondary controller and you be without trouble. Just remenber SCSI drives have an adress jumper on the drives themselves or / and in the BAY , so set the internal to SCSI 0 and the BAY to SCSI 1 they you good to go . Hope it help you a little. GO to JHP/ COMPAQ and download the PDF manual and check all jumpers on the motherboard , they play a crusial role in the config.

[@kennethsrensen7706]

Oh and to make it really fast . Run LINUX on the server , IT really give you both resources free and more power to run applications. ITS actually a really nice server they never break down especially not with LINUX installed. ( damn I regret I didnt get my servers with me when I leaved Denmark )

[@kennethsrensen7706]

Sorry typo not JPH / Compaq but HP / Compaq , they have their own pages in HP network ..

[@kennethsrensen7706]

Jeg håber dette kan hjælpe dig lidt på vej til at få serveren op at køre .

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi kenneth sørensen Thank You very much! there is no SCSI ID select,,the DAS takes care of that,, and the same thing for the internal drives. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@kennethsrensen7706]

@@MyPlayHouse oh du har den model uden jumpers. min havde jumpers , det er meget mere simpelt. oh no thsnks , I enjoy videos of such older hardware , always something can either learn from or maybe help with .

[@GeoffSeeley]

Ah yes, this comes from the dark age of computing where the end user had to know how to terminate a SCSI bus, terminate a token ring network and other hardware things like manually setting an IRQ on expansion cards. Now we just have to do that all in software (BIOS/Option ROMs) :-)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Geoff Seeley Thank You very much! Back when they build it to last,, but you could Fu.. it up in seconds :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@BDBD16]

Shit do you really even need to do IRQs even at a software level? The only thing I fuck with much is COM ports and thats usually due to changing my FTDI or Serial to USB adapter. Or specialty setups like industrial scales.

[@tarhyung45]

Hi Morten, Do you know the name of that cable? I forget its name and now cant find it anywhere

[@MyPlayHouse]

something like this : amzn.to/2Uea6Bl

[@BDBD16]

So is the discount code truly case sensitive? It is so funny to see you playing with SCSI ultra 3. I come across older fibre channel SANS in the field and the newbs are like WOW. I am like trash, toss it.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi BDBD16 Thank You very much! admittedly I have not tried if the discount code is truly case sensitive :-) Yarh just see how fast I F* up SCSI ultra3 :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)

[@guywhoknows]

Now that sounds good. I have a local it security co that sells me parts, I have clearence too, but I can get what I want cheap... Or eBay... Now this video was interesting. I was having a debate about Linus tech tips and the servers he had made for people "ltt 130tb file server Nas." Now I'm old school, so when I think of the problem and solutions I have over 4 decades of knowledge. Now there is this NAS thingy, and we'll the problem is raw uhd camera (4k+) video from red cameras so a minute is somewhere around 730gb a minute. (High frame rate slow motion). Now I think the Nas is the wrong solution. I would think SAN and or DAS is the correct solution to the problem. The premises are; that storage requirements grow quickly. That you can add more for less. Now Nas boxes are limited servers so when the bays and drives are full, that's really it. You could buy another one, but is that really cost effective when you can use das and San? What's your view? I think scaleability is key here in these types of problems.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Rory Witham Thank You very much! I think Linus Tech Tips,, is just accumulating to much video,, or rather,, they record it in to high a resolution and do not use the compression,, they are recording video in a quality that most cinemas would not be able to show,,, WHY,, These tech videos are irrelevant in a few years. I do not get it. I am at over 900 videos and just under 10TB,, and I have every pieces of footages, projekt, rendered out videos and the graphics.. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@guywhoknows]

@@MyPlayHouse yes seems that people are keeping raw formats. I can't see them taking all that space! I got some thing you may like to see, it's from a video you shot back in 2015. Your first servers, I've got one which is a little older...and I have it's DAS as well. Oh the weight of them!! I'll have to go to my storage to get the matching desktop unit for it too... I'll try a video sometime this week hopefully. I'll tag you if I can..

[@lulbro2540]

When you first connected the top array it was all set up good, all you had to do was set your external disk array to id1 not id0 as it must have been set and the server would have booted on its internal boot disk and the os would have mounted the top array as drive D:/E:/F:/ so on dependent on its config. Where you went wrong was not having a scsi terminator on the top array ie where you plugged in the cable on the top array there should have been a second port where you would have needed to add a scsi terminator at the end of the scsi chain, if not an external port you must place a terminator at the end of the internal scai cable insidt the disk array, the controller would have then seen the conflict issued a warning but would have auto incremented the id and fixed its self, the controller would have looked up the chain for the terminator the array inside the box may have had a terminator which if present should have been unplugged from the internal controller/cable if it was present, and placed at the end of the array on the top box, remember the disk array you have could have been /dev/scsi/0/lun0/id0 of a /dev/scsi/0/lun/14/id15/ array with up to 255x14x14 disks the chain stops with a terminator and data can then flow back to the controller and would have auto incremented the id of the array and reported its disks and array correctly the 4 errors you had at the bottom of the screen showed the conflict of the internal and external array on the same controller reporting the same ID0, un plugged the adaptec controller and top array then at boot using the internal scsi controller bios just rebuild the internal array and reboot simples ;) hope this simplifies the scsi chain.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi lul bro Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@MrBreadoflife]

Did i miss something it looks like you had both controllers set to the default SCSI ID of 7. Check your ID's and LUN

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi MrBreadoflife Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@MySmartHomeDomain]

I reached out to Bargain Hardware for IBM/Lenovo heat sinks and Ethernet adapters and found them more expensive. I wanted to support a UK business but they wouldn’t help me so bought from China instead

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Welcome to my Smart Home Domain Thank You very much! I have both noticed that they do not have that much IBM/Lenovo equipment,, and that the chinese prices are pretty hard to beat. :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)

[@sunjam]

ohh yeahhh! :)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thank you very much!

[@TheScrappingJeahaha]

Dang it, why didn't you show me Hardware Bargain before, I looked around there and had to quit after seeing that I spent way to much on my Netapp caddys

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi TheScrappingJeahaha Thank You very much! Well you are going to hear more about them :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@kacper9207]

super perfect✔⭐✔

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi SKY NET CYBER SYSTEM 2 Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@SimRacingFanDK]

You should wear ear protection to be besides that server 🤔

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Thomas Nielsen Thank You very much! It's a blessing to turn it off:-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@SimRacingFanDK]

@@MyPlayHouse my pleasure, your videos are always entertaining and informative, even though they make my mind spend money to fast looking at all those servers lol

[@kingneutron1]

Server 2003?? Throw Linux on it - I'd recommend Linux Mint 19 with webmin package (runs on port 10000) for configuring by webpage

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi kingneutron1 Thank You very much! I would probably try a Server 2003 recovery. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@rephlexc]

13 hour flight, Then i can pick up my server.. :)

[@MyPlayHouse]

That is a long flight! That server?

[@slivikk]

Bargain hardware > all

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Slivikk Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@slivikk]

@@MyPlayHouse Yeah i liked it :D I'm a customer at Bargain Hardware :) And no problem with them

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Slivikk It's good to know,, as I much rather want to promote a good company.. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@sybreeder86]

i got DL380e g8 from them.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Sybreeder Thank You very much! Glad to hear that.. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@ninavid]

I'm wondering what your toughts on recycling servers is. That old gen 1 server is unusable. Would you just trow it away. Or find a recycler for money or plant trees with it etc.

[@MyPlayHouse]

It’s not that dead,, it just need a reinstall.

[@niklasreimer9366]

I saw one of your videos these days were you were messing around with the failing HPE SSDs... Don't know if you heard from it, but there is a firmware bug which makes HPE SSDs fail after exactly 32.768 hours without any option for data recovery. support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00092491en_us

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Niklas Reimer Thank You very much! I did,, if you follow me on twitter, I did post about it,, after five people made me aware of it. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@niklasreimer9366]

@@MyPlayHouse I follow you on Twitter but just rarely use it as I mainly use Mastodon. So I probably missed that... Sorry for being number six telling you that.

[@kalamatagames2631]

i look for cheap idea , to buy old server to use it for gaming server for 20 player first persone shooting game online

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi BEAT THE GAME Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@SakuraChan00]

you boomer congrats on the Compaq of old

[@MyPlayHouse]

I am over 40,, I will upgrade my self to "Grant Bommer" :-)