[ale] PowerEdge 2450 servers

Mon Mar 9 16:52:06 EDT 2009

I have an Apex Outlook KVM in my cube.  It switches between my Windoze
desktop (alas), a couple of Linux builds in my cube as well as to
another global Raritan KVM for our Data Center.  

What's really fun is when I go to the Dell 1955 Blade Server which has
its own built in KVM - I have one KVM going to another which then goes
to another.   Surprisingly enough it works well most of the time though
on occasion Windoze forgets about the keyboard and has to be rebooted.

Good you have the PERC3 - The PERC2 require special handling which
differs depending on whether they're the LSI or Adaptec one.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
James Taylor
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:00 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] PowerEdge 2450 servers

All of the ones that have RAID have PERC3.  I went through and booted
all of them to make sure I had the right specs.
A desktop?  You plan on putting the monitor, keyboard & mouse in another
room?
-jt 

>>> "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> 3/9/2009 03:48 PM >>> 
You sure they all have PERC3/SI in them?  
A couple of my older ones had PERC 2 in them.  (FYI: PERC2 isn't always
the LSI PERC - some are the Adaptec PERC Dell used in the dawn of time.)

I just retired one I was running RHEL4 on one with a PERC3 so the 2.6
kernel will run on these.   My plan is to use it for a desktop so I'll
likely reload with CentOS 5 in the near future to free up the RHEL
subscription.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:31 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] PowerEdge 2450 servers

my stack of 2450's is bigger than yours.....   :-)

those things were freakinawfull$$$$$ when new. Now they are just
heavy. Solid server for a low-impact situation.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, James Taylor
<James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> That last one should have be 2 -600MHZ processors.  I don't know where
that 200MHZ came from.
> -jt
>
>>>> "James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> 3/9/2009 03:07 PM
>>>
> I have stack of Dell PowerEdge 2450 servers that I'd like to get  few
bucks for.
> These things cost a fortune when they were new, and still work.  I
just don't need them.
>
> I have eight of them, specs listed below.
> I'd like to get $50-$75 a pop for them, based on specs.
> I'd consider a reasonable offer for the whole pile.
> If you come get them, I have a ton of other stuff you could look
through that I could persuaded to part with at no extra charge.
>
> They are located on Canton Highway, not far from Town Center in the
East Cobb direction.
> I could deliver (relatively locally) if you want all of them.
> Most of them boot to W2K server (not my loads), but one of them boots
to FC3.
>
>
> PowerEdge 2450/800
> BIOS Rev. A07
> 1 - 800MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> PERC 3/Si RAID
> 3 - 8GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 512MB ECC RAM
>
> ===========================================
>
> PowerEdge 2450/866
> BIOS Rev. A03
> 1 - 800MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> PERC 3/Si RAID
> 3 - 33.9GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 512MB ECC RAM
>
> ===========================================
>
> PowerEdge 2450
> BIOS Rev. A07
> 1 - 600MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> AIC-7899 On-board SCSI Controller + AHA-2940 add-in card
> 1 - 8GB Hotswap SCSI Drive
> 512MB ECC RAM
> Big  (probably non-functional) Tape Library available if you want it.
>
> ===========================================
>
> (System Backplane cable error, but boots to login)
> PowerEdge 2450
> BIOS Rev. A07
> 1 - 600MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> AIC-7899 On-board SCSI Controller
> 2 - 8GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 256MB ECC RAM
> Fax Card
>
> ===========================================
>
> PowerEdge 2450/866
> BIOS Rev. A03
> 2 - 866MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> PERC 3/Si RAID
> 3 - 8GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 1GB ECC RAM
> Redundant Power Supply
>
> ===========================================
>
> PowerEdge 2450
> BIOS Rev. A07
> 2 - 866MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> PERC 3/Si RAID
> 3 - 33.9GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 1GB ECC RAM
> Redundant Power Supply
>
> ===========================================
>
> PowerEdge 2450/866
> BIOS Rev. A03
> 1 - 866MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> PERC 3/Si RAID
> 3 - 8GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 1GB ECC RAM
>
> ===========================================
>
> PowerEdge 2450
> BIOS Rev. A07
> 2 - 200MHZ PIII Processor/133MHZ/256K L2 Cache
> PERC 3/Si RAID
> 3 - 8GB Hotswap SCSI Drives
> 1GB ECC RAM
>
> -jt
>
>
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