Need help with an old HP Proliant DL380 server
One of my clients has an old HP DL380 Proliant server. Last summer, we added a new Dell server to the domain and made it the DC running exchange and moved all data shares to it. We kept the HP server as a secondary DC and nothing else.
The proliant has three sets of mirrored drives. Each set of two 36/72 GB drives is a single partition - C, D, E. Last week, one of the two mirrored drived used as the C partition went bad and the drive LED went red.
I ordered a replacement drive and tried a hot swap yesterday. The server immediately went into a BSOD. When I rebooted, the system gave me two error messages that a drive was not found and I had a F1 & F2 option for the raid controller options. F1 was selected and now the system won't boot.
Here are my questions:
1. I have the server S/N, but the server does not say what G1, 2, 3... version it is. How do I determine that?
2. I have a backup, but I probably need the drivers to reload. I checked HP's site but didn't find the Windows 2003 drivers that I could load when prompted by a Windows install CD. Where can I get them?
3. I went into the Raid utiklity and found three containers. It said they were ok, but why won't it boot and rebuild the C drive?
The proliant has three sets of mirrored drives. Each set of two 36/72 GB drives is a single partition - C, D, E. Last week, one of the two mirrored drived used as the C partition went bad and the drive LED went red.
I ordered a replacement drive and tried a hot swap yesterday. The server immediately went into a BSOD. When I rebooted, the system gave me two error messages that a drive was not found and I had a F1 & F2 option for the raid controller options. F1 was selected and now the system won't boot.
Here are my questions:
1. I have the server S/N, but the server does not say what G1, 2, 3... version it is. How do I determine that?
2. I have a backup, but I probably need the drivers to reload. I checked HP's site but didn't find the Windows 2003 drivers that I could load when prompted by a Windows install CD. Where can I get them?
3. I went into the Raid utiklity and found three containers. It said they were ok, but why won't it boot and rebuild the C drive?
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I've been searching the wen and it appears to be a G4 based what the front looks like. I found a g4 driver download page on HP, but unlike Dell, it dists about fifty different downloads, patches, utilities and firmware updates. I don't need all of them, just the main drivers to get the server running and connected to the domain.
Any techs with HP experience out there? What drivers should I download for Windows 2003 Ent from this link?
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3288132&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=397634&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1005#12212
Any techs with HP experience out there? What drivers should I download for Windows 2003 Ent from this link?
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3288132&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=397634&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1005#12212
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Front bottom right it will say "Gx" unless it is a G1 then it will have nothing
Try putting the failed drive back in and see if it will start up.
Then using the raid utility work through the hot swap
Try putting the failed drive back in and see if it will start up.
Then using the raid utility work through the hot swap
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Driver pack worked. Thanks
Bit like kings and queens that one - or junior and senior.
It's only after the second use of the name that a "the first" or "the second" get added. Queen Elizabeth the First was never called that during her lifetime, she was just called "Queen Elizabeth" So it's probably a G1.
There again the DL380 G1 was 3U high, how tall is this one?