I had the recent good fortune to acquire a couple of Compaq
Proliant Series 3110 server boxes each containing five 2Gb
SCSI drives, they were put out with the bins!

I bought a suitable SCSI card ('IWill SIDE-2930C') and
tried one of them in my P200 homebuild, and it seems fine,
so assume the others are probably OK.

The single CPU in each box is a DX50.

What I would like to do, is rebuild the P200 into the
server box for the sake of preserving the HD's in those
lovely pull mounts where they are also adequately
ventilated by their own fan.  The power supplies seem fine.
The drive I tried in the homebuild got alarmingly hot
without that benefit, and there is a note inside one of the
servers warning not to touch or move any of the drives
until they've cooled, so I assume this is normal!?

My main concern is to discover if this is feasible, and
that the drives will be accessible in this way as C:, D:,
E: etc.  I wondered if they might be wired into their edge
connector cradles in such a way as to render this mounting
only usable with the original MB?  The only connection to
the unit housing the drives (apart from the PS) is the SCSI
ribbon cable, which would just as easily attach to the new
SCSI card, but would it be compatible data wise does anyone
know?

From the dearth of components on the board containing the 5
edge connectors at the back of the drives assembly, the
SCSI chipset has to be on the MB itself which also appears
to have no IDE facility.

Neither machine boots up, there appearing to be no active
BIOS or screen output, but power seems OK.

The drives are all Seagate ST32430N apart from 2X ST32550N,
and one COMPAQ P/N 142292-001 (1GB).

Any help on this much appreciated, thanks.

Best wishes,   Neil Taylor

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