HP, you idiot.
The three ML110 systems that I ordered for a customer just arrived. The customer wanted RAID1, so I ordered three extra hard disks. The hardware bits that hold disks in its place are based on some ingenious slide-and-click system that does not require me to do some acrobatic funny things with a screwdriver just to be able to put a hard disk in the machine.
This is good.
The slide-and-click system requires me to put screws in the drive that have heads of a certain specific size (it uses that as the thing to lock against). Obviously all the industry-standard screws that I have are way too large to fit. The machine does not come with extra screws, nor does the disk.
This is not so good.
Update: 1s/HP/Wouter/. The servers do contain those extra screws, I'm just blind. Whoops.
Wouter, did you install Debian on this hardware? If so I am curious to know how well this hardware was supported by the standard Sarge kernel. Not much is said here: http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant Thanks.
The standard Sarge 2.6 kernel doesn't work, it doesn't find the SATA controllers; and the 2.4 kernel didn't work either, but I can't remember why that was (it was something different).
However, the 2.6.16 d-i image from Kenshi Muto did work. You can find those on his web site.