Johnm

No, but the price is quite reasonable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235039&Tpk=zalman%20MS800

Nice to see another MicroServer owner! In case you hadn't seen all the discussion on forums.overclockers.com.au , there are some sets of RAM that work in the MicroServer until you either reboot or power off and re-power (I can't remember which). I suggest you do a few (5-10) cycles of soft rebooting and hard power cycling and each time check that the BIOS sees all 16GB. As you're only booting in to the BIOS, it shouldn't take long. There are reports that Patriot RAM works, and I think one or two other types, but most 8GB DIMMs do not work -- the HP Microserver doesn't officially support 16GB. Cheers, Neil. Good info.. I Have been pretty successful with 2x Samsung 8GiB ECC Unbufferd UDIMMs... but i have not powered it on and off more then a dozen times since I installed it. Ok, about the same as 14-15" laptop. thanks for the info. that should work... I'll probably get one when I get back stateside.

Nice setup. A little off topic. what is the max resolution on that portable monitor? I have been looking for something like that for a while. I have a rack mounted mac mini server that gets used offsite quite often. most of time it needs no monitor. but every now and then we need to put a monitor on it. We found out that none of the normal portable USB monitors work as the primary/only display on OSx. the HDMI of this one should work for us.

Thats one way to unmake the MicroServer... that reminds me of my 24 drive Norco powered by an X7SPA ITX Atom. There is a 16 port LSI HBA if you want to pass on the expander. Personally, I prefer the micro server as a micro server, but is it neat to see one evolve into something else. I like that you didn't actually destroy anything (unlike most modding). that way you can always rebuild the MicroServer when you chose to upgrade the board in the new build.

Nice tip. I put a strip or two of blue painters tape over the head of my flashlight so it was much dimmer.

No, as i recall you needed to change 3-4 files. otherwise you end up with a mismatched flash. what I did was used the "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11)" file on page one, then i downloaded the "upgrade-M1015-P12" file found later in the thread and i replaced the files in "upgrade-M1015-P12" with the P14 files. and it went just fine. there is some talk that the P14 files might be needed for unraid for the LSI bug fixes. I do not think this is confirmed yet. I see no reason not to go to P14 now. I believe i had to replace the dos version of sas2flash.exe and everything in the "sasbios_rel" folder also.. otherwise you get an error later that the SAS card version is incorrect or not found. I had that error back when i flashed to P13. I was able to recover

RC5 has some known issues with the MVSAS driver. There is an RC6test to address this. Also, you did not state how much RAM you have, but running several preclears at once can run you out of ram causing the preclear it to fail. I will assume the way your card works is 2 SAS channels split into four. so the first 2 ports share 300MB/s and the second set of 2 share 300MB/s. more then plenty of bandwidth for 8 mechanical drives. even high end SAS drives. the bottleneck Would be the PCIe 4x slot. For unaid, I would not worry about it at all.

It is still usable hardware in my opinion. I would post your question there. some of the mods on that site are very knowledgeable on the hardware and its limits and installing other stuff on them. i believe that some of the people on that forum used to work for the MSS division of HP.

Thats a very good question and i have wondered about that myself. I know a few people with the older MSS units that are unused. I believe they MSS boots from usb if it is in the top rear USB port. the motherboards are proprietary, but they have Intel 775 chips in many of them (some are upgradeable). some can support 2GB (or more?) of ram. A good place to ask would be over at www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/ You could try booting the free version of unraid if you can get it to boot usb. the hardest part is that they are headless and you cant see any errors without a breakout cable..

it looks like it works. I didnt actually execute the command. But i got everything in place to test it on my new LSI card when I get it. and get time...

thank you. I am so not used to these seagates. too bad they are such crap drives. they have nice specs..

My latest pre-clear... Hmmm.

I thought the same thing.. the second i saw the broken legs... "ok break the rest and drill them out. put a fan screw in from the back". it might even make it better by removing the vibration of the fan rattling around on that plastic post. Pretty craptastic design now, that's for sure.

If you bought it from newegg, your receipt is stored forever in your purchase history. you can just download it from them.

Im running 3 m1015's flashed with p13 (p14 was released after I flashed them). I am running on 5.0Beta12. I can confirm from experiance that betas 13 & 14 do not work with LSI cards.