That will be a sweet machine! :oD This is the link to the IBM Red Book for that series get the pdf you will need it. IBM Red Books are like technical manuals. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG244760.html Looks like it has an embedded raid controller in it The IBM PC Server 330 is a powerful full-tower system with Pentium Pro 200 MHz, Pentium II 233 MHz or 266 MHz processors. All models contain integrated PCI RAID Ultra SCSI controllers, 100/10 Mbps full-duplex PCI Ethernet controller, I·C bus, 64 MB ECC EDO memory and a PCI SVGA chip set. I have some EDD-EDO ram if you need it. If the untested ram is not ECC forget it. It wont hurt to test it. Test each chip on its own. the "pull-out racks" are hot swap trays Are all the disks you talked about in hot swap trays? If not your going to need to learn more about SCSI and you'll need more trays. You are going to need the configuration utilities, where ever you got the machine, ask if they have the CD's that came with it. This will have the raid configuration program you will need to use to install any OS. Using windows to get it up and running makes life a little easier if you haven't dealt with high end (but old) servers. In fact use DOS to get it to boot the first time, thats real easy. Webmaster wrote: >I just picked up an old IBM PC Server 330. > >Dual 266MHz PII's >128MB RAM (2 64MB EDO sticks, 2 slots availible, I have 4 sticks of >untested 64MB) >Onboard SCSI (not sure on type/speed) >(2) 4.3GB SCSI HDs (in pull-out racks, have 2 racks, room for 4 more) >Onboard LAN (10/100, I am quite sure) >CD-ROM (don't know speed) >BIOS ability to run: >Monitorless, >Keyboardless, >Diskless ( Not sure what that means, I think floppy, but don't know) > >I also have 7 Seagate Cheatah 18.2GB 10k HDs, and a few various 18.2 and >9.1 HDs (mostly 18.2, and 10k) > >Would this work great for our server? > >Also, has anyone had any experience with these? > >*Puts on super-flame retardant suit* > >I tried to install Win2k on it ( I needed a quick fileserver) and it >couldn't find the HDs...any help? I'm gonna give Linux a try on >it...should I go RH or Mandrake? (I've got RH 9.0, and Mandrake 9.1) >Which one (probably) has better support for this system? > >Thanks! > >Keith Bachman > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list