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HP netserver LD pro -- you ever have one of these?

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smp

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We have one at work. I'm convinced that it's too old to accept large IDE drives. The thing is primarily scsi, but someone here wants to make a 120BB work in it. The machine won't see the drive, am I totally out of my senses here or is the BIOS just too old?
This is a Pentium Pro 180 machine BTW .. HP netserver PRO LD

Please LMK
Thanks
 
I'd dought that thing can take it. At home, we have a 433mhz celeron webserver/ftp/etc. and we tried getting a 60 gig hard drive to work on it and it wouldn't take it. We tried a whole ton of things but couldn't get it to work. Actually, we later found out it would only work as a slave drive on it and not master for some reason, you'd be better off getting a new server.

What kind of stuff is that server doing? Doesn't it need more than a Pentium Pro?
 
This is a total shot in the dark, but is it possible to update the BIOS on that thing? Some systems require updates of the BIOS to be able to properly recognize large IDE drives.
 
I found bios updates on the HP website, but none of them (that I found) mentioned anything about large disk support.
The Ppro 180 is a web/ftp server and a file server for a medium sized college. You don't need an XP2800 to do these things. You youngins would be surprised what p100's used to do.
It's primarily a SCSI system with only one IDE channel.
 
Are you able to try a PCI IDE controller? That might allow you to get around the limitations of the PC's BIOS, if the operating system would support a disk that large.
 
Thanks.. I mentioned a controller card but it didn't seem to compute (huh.. what's a controller card?)
 
I don't have any ideas except that PCI card solution, because even my server at home running on a 433mhz celeron chip and an IntelCA810 mobo, isn't able to take a 60 gig drive. If I were you, I'd just get some cheap barebones system and use your existing parts.

There is one other option, I saw somewhere a case which lets you put an i nternet IDE drive inside and use USB 2.0 to connect to it. It was $50 but can't remember where. If you decide to choose it tell me and I'll try and find the site.

Do you even have USB ports on that thing? If you don't you could get a $35 2.0 USB card at best buy and try that. What OS is that thing on? Hopefully the drive will work with it... hehe
 
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