Unfortunately, hot-swapping an eSATA drive is a bit more complicated than hot swapping a USB drive. First off, your BIOS needs to support AHCI (click here for more info on AHCI), and your SATA controller also needs to support it as well. Secondly your OS, needs to specifically support hot plug, and in the case of Windows 7, it wont boot if you change to AHCI after the OS has been installed.
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Installing Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on Linux
Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator is Dell's version of the HP System Management Homepage, as it allows you to log into a web interface to view system configuration, health, and performance statistics. Its availible for free and runs in Windows and Linux. Dell makes the install easy on Linux due via a public rpm repo. The … Continue reading Installing Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on Linux
ProLiant System Management Homepage
The HP Systems management homepage is a web based utility for managing and monitoring Proliant Servers. It can be installed via the ProLiant Support Pack DVD (on linux its just an rpm). Once installed you can modify the default settings via the perl script, hpSMHSetup.pl located in /usr/local/hp. To access your server's homepage navigate to … Continue reading ProLiant System Management Homepage
Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010
If you are having issues with your HP server and were thinking about calling support, you might as well put down the phone. Seems to me that their default first step of troubleshooting is to advise you to upgrade to the latest firmware. According to HP support these were both release just a couple … Continue reading Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010