For a couple of years now my son and I have built up a fairly extensive home network mainly out of odds and ends as a bit of a hobby and learning project. As a result of a local Technical Insitution upgrading some old equipment we purchased some of this older technology for a very small price. This equipment consists of the following :
Compaq 1600R 6/500, Compaq 1600R 6/400, Compaq Proliant Storage System UE (10 9.1gb Disks), Overland data Tape backup unit, along with assorted cables etc. Though this is older gear it is all indistrial quality with redundant hot swappable power supplies, disks etc.
At the moment it is just a pile of rather heavy and solidly built hardware in the corner of a room and I am sure we will get our value of the money spent in restoring this to a new server for our system.
We will run Linux on this equipment – possibly CENTOS. Our starting point is to get one server up and running using the Stack of drives in the remote storage uint.
Our problem is we have no info or manuals for any of this equipment so far we have not found anything from a quick google so we are seeking some of the pro’s out there with experience on this gear to help point ust to where we can find the information we require.