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Hi drittnisse, well it was an EOL special for me, it only cost £100/$185!
Well I used ports 5 & 6, there ones near the back of the machine (If i remember correctly). RAID and AHCI is disabled. I also upgraded to the latest BIOS - 1.08 which is dated 30/06/08. I only get use of 2 hard disk's but that's ok for me
Let me know how you get on!
Ah yes, forgot to make mention of that - it's a bit anoying and the PCI slot is a 3.3v only (so forget that old network card in the corner collecting dust from 2000 
)
I know there is a way of adding support for some card's - I don't know if it will work - I added a couple of extra card's anyway. App its a Intel® Nineveh 82566DM according to the mobo specs and the model number will return results if searched on this forum but nothing to suggest it could work. I would like to have a go and get it working, but I have pently of other work that I need to get on with.
It wasn't my money luckily, just my choice of cheap hardware
edited: as part of it wasn't making any sense.
)I know there is a way of adding support for some card's - I don't know if it will work - I added a couple of extra card's anyway. App its a Intel® Nineveh 82566DM according to the mobo specs and the model number will return results if searched on this forum but nothing to suggest it could work. I would like to have a go and get it working, but I have pently of other work that I need to get on with.
It wasn't my money luckily, just my choice of cheap hardware
edited: as part of it wasn't making any sense.
I dont have nics laying around. But i do have another server. If that doesnt work, ill guess ill have to buy a rack server
And yes, i have dhcp, and i know it works (the server was a linux test server before ill tryed vmware).
Thanks for your help, guys.
And yes, i have dhcp, and i know it works (the server was a linux test server before ill tryed vmware).
Thanks for your help, guys.
Hi there, I'm new to this community, but have already been reading offline a lot.
I've exactly the same probs with my Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY Econel 100 S2.
Just trying a bit with the esxi
Is there anyone around, who got one of the first 4 sata-ports running ?
The system recognizes both controllers:
00:31.02 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation 4 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9) vmhba0
Class 0101: 8086:2920
00:31.05 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9) vmhba1
Class 0101: 8086:2926
But in the vi-client I only see this:
Isn't the controller the same as the one on the HP ML 110 G5 -> http://communities.vmware.com/message/964902#964902 ?
Even my network card ist recognized (after editing the oem.tgz):
00:25.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation Intel onboard 100 s2 Gigabit Ethernet Controller vmnic0
Class 0200: 8086:10bd
...
01:00.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller vmnic2
Class 0200: 8086:105e
01:00.01 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller vmnic3
Class 0200: 8086:105e
But it is not fount in the client:
Any other tips, hints or hacks ?
Thanks a lot,
Jan
I've exactly the same probs with my Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY Econel 100 S2.
Just trying a bit with the esxi
Is there anyone around, who got one of the first 4 sata-ports running ?
The system recognizes both controllers:
00:31.02 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation 4 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9) vmhba0
Class 0101: 8086:2920
00:31.05 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9) vmhba1
Class 0101: 8086:2926
But in the vi-client I only see this:
Isn't the controller the same as the one on the HP ML 110 G5 -> http://communities.vmware.com/message/964902#964902 ?
Even my network card ist recognized (after editing the oem.tgz):
00:25.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation Intel onboard 100 s2 Gigabit Ethernet Controller vmnic0
Class 0200: 8086:10bd
...
01:00.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller vmnic2
Class 0200: 8086:105e
01:00.01 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller vmnic3
Class 0200: 8086:105e
But it is not fount in the client:
Any other tips, hints or hacks ?
Thanks a lot,
Jan
