Recent content by jkmccarthy

Thanks pwfig for the informative replies ... I don't know what became of the e-mail notices I used to receive each time a new post appears in this forum ... sorry for the delay in saying thanks and replying ... The USB "Y-mouse" is rather pricey, so I'm still keeping an eye out for a plain...

Here's the details on my machine ... American Megatrends Enterprise64 BIOS 12/08/2003 10:06:38 ... (then successfully completes POST) ... LSI Logic Corp, MPT BIOS MPT-BIOS 5.07.00 ... (then successfully scans SCSI bus and identifies drives) ... EFI version 1.10 [14.61] EFI...

If anyone is game to take Securix up on his challenge, apparently you can try for free here: Download Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for Itanium Trial version

wzhao -- I think what pwfig is saying is that he had better luck with SCSI terminators on the two *external* SCSI connectors on the back of the Celestica IYA210 server. You can get an idea of what these are by searching on ebay for: VHDCI SCSI terminator For best results, safest thing...

During the startup sequence, my Celestica IYA210 frequently hangs after the EFI firmware banner and Broadcom NIC announcement, but before (the second NIC announcement? and) the EFI file systems and boot options menu. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior on their IYA210 beast ...