1U servers..

[Travis Roy]

brian wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:27, Travis Roy wrote:
> 
>>Either that or just open up the case, plug in a normal CD-Rom drive, 
>>install, remove drive, put in rack... Or get a USB CD drive and do it 
>>that way..
> 
> 
> Actually, that won't work.  We order one of the HP servers (big mistake,
> I hate the thing)... Anyway, it only seems to recognize the HP
> cdrom/floppy combo thing that has a funky connector on it.  The problem
> might have been that there was no IDE bus available, I don't recall as
> it has been about a year, but I do remember that we couldn't just
> install a "normal" CD ROM to boot/load from.

That alone would make me say no thanks to buying it.