27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
7:36 p.m.
only down side of this box (C240) and others like it is
that the boot disk
generally
has to be a HVD Scsi drive. Most of these have narrow single ended
scsi interfaces, but they won't boot
HP reved the SCSI at C200 - it's now Ultra-Wide-SE (confusing moniker- sounds like it
should be 32-bit datapath
or something. Ultra narrow also brings up interesting mental pictures). All dual-bus HP9ks
will boot off of a narrow CD-ROM,
seems likely some at least will boot from narrow HDDs.
Regarding the Nova series (FGHI 40,50,60,70) Not "supported" but workable.
I have a G70 2xPA7100 box happily crunching away with HP-UX 11i [9/2003] (well, not now -
it's too hot to run the big beasts)
Auto-install crashed, but manual install worked O.K.
I have heard that the ASP chipset and CRX graphics have been definitely done away with,
but could be worth a try - it's not like you're
out big $$. Try the manual install - auto install seems more likely to break with
unsupported equipment..