Even though it involves money here's a recommended supplier of spare parts for the PE6850 in case you need to replace a failing part or upgrade let's say the CPU or HDDs: https://www.serversupply.com/SYSTEM/DELL/Poweredge%206850/ Here's an overview of available FW for the PE6850: http://poweredgec.dell.com/latest_poweredge-8g.html
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:06 AM, Wes Will <[email protected]> wrote: > <SEVERAL LIST MEMBERS, OFF-LIST> wrote something like: > > > A 6850? Get something 9G or newer!! > > I'm guessing that "FREE" didn't register here. Allow me to elucidate. > > I run network services for non-profits and civic groups and random > weirdos - from some wood-working hobbyists in the Susquehanna Valley to > a guy in Australia who scans "New Scientist" magazines for his archives, > stores them on my disk array, and tries to promote discussions of > science among some of our mutual friends, to a group of Girl Guides and > their leaders in the London metro (yes, London, UK) area. (No I am NOT > joking here. Girl Guides. Brownies, to be specific. In England. > They're some of my favourite users.) And others. > > I'm an Aulde Pharte; nearly ten years retired. Retired Geek, from a > middlin'-large mid-western university where I did IT stuff - networking, > Tier-3 server tech support, and taught the occasional herd of under-grads. > > In Illinois. > > Which if you're watching politics the last few years you might have > noticed "retirement," "state budget," and "Illinois," having little to > do with, "SOLVENT." Or even "SANITY." > > What with the bloviating moron we have instead of a governor, and the > idiots we're stuck with instead of a state legislature (don't even get > me started on the federal level), I'm lucky not to be selling pencils or > apples on the street. Or just starving / freezing to death. My > "pension" is better described as a "pittance." > > I didn't go in for making piles of wonga when I was young, so now that > I'm old I'm wonga-deficient. But mostly happy and not all that stressed > most of the time, so I consider it a wash. > > I keep a server going so I can at least pretend that I'm not falling > totally out of touch with the IT industry. > > I got this Gen-8 monster for free. As in "Absolutely No Money." > > I've got nothing in it but some sweat and time, which are both to be had > cheaply these days. I'm using free, open-source, software (FOSS) for a > reason, and the main reason is "FREE." Price IS a consideration here. > No "paid support." No "contracts." No software "budget." > > Either I figure it out, often with the help of kind strangers on mailing > lists, or it just doesn't get done. There is no hiring of help for > this, unless they take cookies in payment. > > I get some random, small assistance on the power bill; the non-profits > have been known to toss me a bit of coin ("BitCoin"? Yeah, don't I > wish.) on occasion, as recompense for not being billed for all the admin > time, space, and bandwidth they use. But that is all, and it is quite > sporadic. Power is my largest outlay here, but luckily it's not that > much, really. We don't use much power anywhere in the rest of the > house, so the server rack isn't a big financial drain. > > If a thing costs real money, and I can't work out the price "in kind," > as labour, or pumpkin pies, plowing, bush-hogging, or garden tilling, > whatever, I mostly don't get that thing. > > (Yeah, we're in the back woods of the boon-docks here. Barter is the > rule when possible. "Rural" doesn't even come close. We-All Be Po' > Folk. But it's quiet, and the air is clean. So far, anyway. Ask me > next year if it's still so.) > > Therefore, unless you know where there's a gen-9 or newer box about to > be crushed and dumpstered, within driving distance of the tail-end of > nowhere in the south end of Illinois, I'm kind of stuck getting this > behemoth going before the even-older machine (dual 600 MHz P-III's, if > that gives you any idea of the state of things) decides to go belly-up. > > Even as out-of-date as it is, I suspect this box will give me more bang > for the kilowatt-hour than the even-older one it will be replacing..... > > IF I can get it running. > > I do appreciate the responses, on- and off- list, and the spirit in > which they were intended. But almost every suggestion involved the > outlay of cash which doesn't exist in my universe, so we're back to the > original question. > > Thus far, RHEL 5 or 6 seems to be the route to go. A couple of Debian > suggestions, which will be considered and tried out, but the RedHat > offering seems to be the one most recommended. I'll be looking for the > archive of 'antiquated junk' and retrieve an image tonight, if I can > find it. > > Thanks, y'all. > > -- > Wes Will > N9KDY > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > -- Tech III * AppControl * Endpoint Protection * Server Maintenance Buncombe County Schools Technology Department Network Group ComicSans Awareness Campaign <http://comicsanscriminal.com>
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