On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Thursday 14 January 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:14:52PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > ... > > > Maybe its just bad luck here :) > > > > I remember a story about two similar HP proliants.. same model number, > > ordered the same day, same hardware configuration etc.. > > > > The other one had problems with a lot of things, while the other one was > > working perfectly well.. > > > > Looking at the serial numbers in more detail revealed the non-working > > one was assembled in Malaysia, while the working one was assembled in > > Ireland.. (iirc). :) > > IMO the most likely reason for one server working and not another one would be > HP shipping (or bounce-your-servers-around-the-globe as I like to call it)... > Uhm, should have been more clear about that, I didn't mean shipping/transportation problems, there was some feature that didn't work in the other one, because the motherboard was different iirc. I can't remember the details anymore. -- Pasi