Oh.....well that explains it! LoL! A newly minted admin who doesn't see the "potential" of some H/W because he wasn't trained on it.....so he thinks its too old to serve a real purpose in the modern world.....LoL! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Fernando Cassia" <fcassia at gmail.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Subject: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2014 10:47 am On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:38 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > It could have been tossed because it was old... but I'd wonder if it was > tossed because either the m/b or the CPU failed. > the guy who was throwing it into a dumpster bin when I walked by clearly knew something about servers, but didn't have much idea about what he was throwing out. He sounded like a fresh sysadmin. He told me "I have another like this that we might throw out, we can't get disks for them, and we're buying a new server anyway so..." FC _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos