Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> It even claims to have RAID. (But I wouldn't trust that as far as I 
>> could throw it!)
> 
> I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at 
> work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge) 
> has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the 
> BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The 
> others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you 
> have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it? 
> What's "hot" about that?
> 
> BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration 
> on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-)  At least then I wouldn't have to walk 
> someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration" 
> when they put in a new disk for us.

OK, that's pretty special...

(Our servers don't have hot-swap drives, so you gotta shut it down 
anyway. But you can *configure* it once Windoze has loaded back up. You 
don't *have* to configure it from the BIOS screen - although obviously 
you *can*...)

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