Mark A. Lewis wrote: >>Depending on age of the 1850s and it seems all the 1600s have >>an issue when Anaconda is trying to detect USB. Do a no usb >>install on those. >>Also, on the 1850, if you're using a raid card, you may need >>to disable the onboard raid as it can be touchy. Otherwise, I >>have 3000Rs, 1850Rs, DL360Rs (which i won't buy again as >>these have been the most unreliable) and DL380s, all happily >>chugging along on ver 3 and ver 4 installs. I did hit some >>snags with LVM conflicts. I think the proprietary scsi >>conflicted, but setting up with disk druid has always been reliable. >> >>John Hinton >> >> > >Let me guess, power supply fan failures on the 360's? If it helps, the >newer ones have come a long way. > > > That's the start, but the replacement was supposed to be 'fixed'. But I don't understand it shutting down instead of issueing a warning when only one of the three PS fans dies. And all this happens almost to the day from manufacture. I had one in a colo situation where they had three... all made within a few months of one another and all had the same failures within those same months of one another. Then next comes the processor fan........ then the power supply..... then ..... I just think they tried to make it too small (1u) personally. All in a nice clean room with good heating/cooling. The 380s seem to be light years ahead in superiority. I would hope the new 360s are better, but somehow I have my doubts. I'm hearing some grumblings about various blade servers being short lived as well. (and I don't mean 1u servers, even though compaq/hp like to call the 360s blades). I just feel like there are limits to what can be done in a given space... although on many things that space keeps getting smaller. Gimme' a new version of the Proliant 7000!!! LOL!!! ;) John Hinton