no big deal ...but??

I just scrapped out a few ancient servers and ended up with twenty, 4 gig
ultra-wides.
Decided to fool around with them and see if maybe they'd have a use.

Put them in a Win2k machine and was not surprised to see they were not
partitioned...
I assume that was because they were all from RAID arrays...
however they all had an 8 meg EISA partition which is not deletable from
disk management.

Because I had nothing better to do...I used the SCSI controller's lo-level
format to see if I could
wipe one of the drives and start over.
Now the drive is not even "seen" by disk management...however the scsi bios
detects it ok
and it spins up. Did the lo-level format ruin it??? That's what it looks
like.
Anyway the drive has zero value to me...Just curious



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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:03:00 -0500, "philo"
<philo@privacy.net> wrote:

>I just scrapped out a few ancient servers and ended up with twenty, 4 gig
>ultra-wides.
>Decided to fool around with them and see if maybe they'd have a use.
>
>Put them in a Win2k machine and was not surprised to see they were not
>partitioned...
>I assume that was because they were all from RAID arrays...
>however they all had an 8 meg EISA partition which is not deletable from
>disk management.
>
>Because I had nothing better to do...I used the SCSI controller's lo-level
>format to see if I could
>wipe one of the drives and start over.
>Now the drive is not even "seen" by disk management...however the scsi bios
>detects it ok
>and it spins up. Did the lo-level format ruin it??? That's what it looks
>like.
>Anyway the drive has zero value to me...Just curious

Assign it to be a member of an array now in the controller's
bios.

<snip>

management...however the scsi bios
> >detects it ok
> >and it spins up. Did the lo-level format ruin it??? That's what it looks
> >like.
> >Anyway the drive has zero value to me...Just curious
>
> Assign it to be a member of an array now in the controller's
> bios.


Well the two RAID controllers I have are now in machines...
the arrays are built and the OS loaded so I don't want to pull the
controllers.

All the rest of my SCSI controllers are non-raid .

I think I'll put the drive in the recycle bin and quit fooling with it...
Chances are I'll be putting the good ones there too <G>



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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:32:46 -0500, "philo"
<philo@privacy.net> wrote:

><snip>
>
>management...however the scsi bios
>> >detects it ok
>> >and it spins up. Did the lo-level format ruin it??? That's what it looks
>> >like.
>> >Anyway the drive has zero value to me...Just curious
>>
>> Assign it to be a member of an array now in the controller's
>> bios.
>
>
>Well the two RAID controllers I have are now in machines...
>the arrays are built and the OS loaded so I don't want to pull the
>controllers.
>
>All the rest of my SCSI controllers are non-raid .
>
>I think I'll put the drive in the recycle bin and quit fooling with it...
>Chances are I'll be putting the good ones there too <G>


They're a nice source of magnets. :-)

<snip>

> >
> >All the rest of my SCSI controllers are non-raid .
> >
> >I think I'll put the drive in the recycle bin and quit fooling with it...
> >Chances are I'll be putting the good ones there too <G>
>
>
> They're a nice source of magnets. :-)

yes they are I have some magnets that came out of scsi drives...
and they are very hard to pull apart.

Well I did find a few more RAID controllers here...from COMPAQ servers...
and they still had the RAID util on their website.
so I tested some more drives in a 7-drive array cabinet.
doggone...there were two bad ones...but I still have 5 spare drives

wowee a huge cabinet all for a total of 24 gigs <G>



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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:56:45 -0500, "philo"
<philo@privacy.net> wrote:

>
><snip>
>
>> >
>> >All the rest of my SCSI controllers are non-raid .
>> >
>> >I think I'll put the drive in the recycle bin and quit fooling with it...
>> >Chances are I'll be putting the good ones there too <G>
>>
>>
>> They're a nice source of magnets. :-)
>
>yes they are I have some magnets that came out of scsi drives...
>and they are very hard to pull apart.
>
>Well I did find a few more RAID controllers here...from COMPAQ servers...
>and they still had the RAID util on their website.
>so I tested some more drives in a 7-drive array cabinet.
>doggone...there were two bad ones...but I still have 5 spare drives
>
>wowee a huge cabinet all for a total of 24 gigs <G>


The case was probably the most valuable part... see if you
can refit some newer parts into it.

<snip>

> >Well I did find a few more RAID controllers here...from COMPAQ servers...
> >and they still had the RAID util on their website.
> >so I tested some more drives in a 7-drive array cabinet.
> >doggone...there were two bad ones...but I still have 5 spare drives
> >
> >wowee a huge cabinet all for a total of 24 gigs <G>
>
>
> The case was probably the most valuable part... see if you
> can refit some newer parts into it.


I'm going to keep that case as it is but I have a similar one that I've
gutted
and will be able to fit an HP server into it that's presently without a
cabinet...
I will be doing some modification with a Sawzall!



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<snip>
>
>
> I'm going to keep that case as it is but I have a similar one that I've
> gutted
> and will be able to fit an HP server into it that's presently without a
> cabinet...
> I will be doing some modification with a Sawzall!
>
>


did it!

no sawzall needed...the chassis pieces were easy to remove



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