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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The trees are sure looking nice. Some are fire red and some are green yet.
----------------------------------------Was out at the county auction today and picked up a dual Xeon Proliant server for $15.00. I will have to find a hard drive(SCSI) for it and operating system, but I figure for that price I can't go too far wrong. I do not know yet which Xeon chips are in the thing, but I will do a little research and find out. I am going to need some luck to get the thing running. Any and all advice welcome. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Probably woodcrest chips. Stick ubuntu 64 on it. What model is it? Been seeing allot of older servers selling on craiglist lately. Was considering some but when I got offered the westmere chips, let's just say it was an offer I couldn't refuse. Still having mobo issues though. On a second mobo and still no post. Sent it to the guy I got the chips from to see if the chips are bad. Turning into a nightmare. Since I didn't have luck selling my used parts, will put it together and crunch awhile till I get my new build figured out. Got to order a case. Only 2ghz xeons but at least it will crunch.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Congrats to all. I see we have squeezed by the 700 year mark. Keep up the good crunching.
----------------------------------------I tried to fire up my 15 dollar server with a 17 dollar hard drive. The server boots beautifully, but refuses to recognize the drive. When I get some time I will do some research . Maybe just get a different scsi drive. Hope all are well. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Check the drive to see what format it is. Ran into this problem on my little cruncher I put together from those parts I tried to sell. The disk came from my Mac pro I sold. The MBR was EFI. Tried windows but wouldn't recognize the drive. Decided to try ubuntu. Was finally allowed to reformat it. What was weird was I reformatted it to DOS 32 before I removed it from the pro. Darn thing still had EFI.
----------------------------------------I did get another cruncher going. 2 dual core xeon 2Ghz happily crunching. My big build had issues with the westmere chips. Sent the board and chips to the guy I bought the chips from. No problems on his end. I must have missed something. Should have it back tomorrow so hope to add 16 more cores crunching away by the weekend. Put a bid on some quad core xeon to replace the dual core chips. Find out in 2 days if I won. Did you find out what chips are in it?
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Congrats to all. I see we have squeezed by the 700 year mark. Keep up the good crunching. I tried to fire up my 15 dollar server with a 17 dollar hard drive. The server boots beautifully, but refuses to recognize the drive. When I get some time I will do some research . Maybe just get a different scsi drive. Hope all are well. Cheers On boot up there usually is a screen that shows the scsi controller checking all the scsi IDs. If the scsi controller can't see the drive then you may need to change the scsi ID (move or add jumpers) or maybe the scsi chain is not terminated properly.  |
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darth_vader
Veteran Cruncher A galaxy far, far away... Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Post Count: 514 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Check the drive to see what format it is. Ran into this problem on my little cruncher I put together from those parts I tried to sell. The disk came from my Mac pro I sold. The MBR was EFI. Tried windows but wouldn't recognize the drive. Decided to try ubuntu. Was finally allowed to reformat it. What was weird was I reformatted it to DOS 32 before I removed it from the pro. Darn thing still had EFI. Another possibility is that the sector size may be 520 bytes instead of 512 and it might require a low level format to change. Google for 520 byte sector size.- D |
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
Check the drive to see what format it is. Ran into this problem on my little cruncher I put together from those parts I tried to sell. The disk came from my Mac pro I sold. The MBR was EFI. Tried windows but wouldn't recognize the drive. Decided to try ubuntu. Was finally allowed to reformat it. What was weird was I reformatted it to DOS 32 before I removed it from the pro. Darn thing still had EFI. That's because EFI isn't a file system, it's a method of laying out partitions. You'd need to re-partition to MBR, not just reformat existing partitions.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Already did that.
----------------------------------------Joe, figure it out yet? Got my westmere system up and running, finally. Put Win7 pro on it. Haven't been on windows in over 6 years. I did run win7 rc1 to test out. Not bad. Should have it crunching soon once I do all my updates.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Already did that. Joe, figure it out yet? Got my westmere system up and running, finally. Put Win7 pro on it. Haven't been on windows in over 6 years. I did run win7 rc1 to test out. Not bad. Should have it crunching soon once I do all my updates. Not up and runing yet. Thanks to all for the advice. Directions on the top of the box say only HP branded SCSI drives will work. I have a little trouble believing that, but it might be true. I will try a couple of other things. On startup it says HP 5I controller. It has two hot swappable drive bays but I only have one drive. I suppose it could be a termination issue .BTW the chips are 2.4 ghz XEONS, circa 2005. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yeah, that's got to be BS on the drive. Are those chips single core and have 2 installed? Am curious if those are woodcrest chips in it. If will handle woodcrest chips, and I find some quads to replace my dual core ( lost on the auction), can sell you these chips real cheap so you can have 4 cores crunching. See if those are socket 771.
----------------------------------------BTW, my new rig is happily crunching away. Love seeing 16 cores crunching on one machine. Going to try and sell the other 2 to fund another westmere box.
Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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