There should be But the firmware boot disks don't upgrade it... I'll have to 
look further. The curent BIOS on teh machine is E39 dated 2000. That would be 
the original I think.

Mike


On Saturday 10 September 2005 02:46 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> >I got the smartStart, but it won't let me set up for IDE boot. When I try
> > to set-up the BIOS it will let me change most settings but says this
> > system does not support IDE HD. Hence I was think ing I would boot on a
> > floppy and have it find the kernel and set them machine up to use the HD.
> > It finds the HD during boot up but can't boot from it...
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >On Friday 09 September 2005 04:19 pm, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> >>Most likely you need to get hold of a copy of the "Comaq SmartStart" CDs
> >>for this machine to set it up to boot from an IDE drive, this will also
> >>contain the Compaq Array Controller software which will enable you to
> >>set up the 'BIOS' on the smart controller card to tun the array in the
> >>way which you want to.
> >>Try the Compaq website and see if you can find something there.
> >>
> >>Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> >>>I have a Compaq Proliant 3000, w 6 18.2 SCSI disks I am building for a
> >>>file server for my department. I have installed an IDE HD 40gig to hold
> >>>the OS so as to reserve all the SCSI space for data. Problem is after
> >>>installing twice and messing around I find that the firmware in teh
> >>>3000's was not designed to support IDE HD's. I can install to it, I
> >>>assume it is that it just won't boot to it. How do I build a floppy to
> >>>just get the boot process tarted then look to teh HD for kernel and os?
> >>>
> >>>Does this make any sense to anyone?
> >>>
> >>>Mike
>
> Have you looked to see if there is a bios/system upgrade available? We
> use a Proliant 3000 as the main document/application server at work and
> had to upgrade the bios/system in order to use ide. Been working great
> since.
>
> --
> Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
> Westbank, B. C

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