danny-boy

I've got a question for guys hopefully can answer.

I've been give the task of upgrading a mate's server as cheaply as possible.

Its a bit of a dog,

Its a dual Pentium 200
420 mb of RAM (Don't ask me how that works)
2940 SCSI controller running 4 SCSI drives (two mirrors, it must be some form of software RAID, as I though the 2940 wasnt a RAID card)

Its running a 4/8 DDS drive

Its running Windows 2000 SBS.

My question is, can I put the drives and SCSI card into a new server, i.e. a new case, board, 2 CPU and a RAM.

Would doing this bugger up the kernel or is W2000 flexible? I ideally wanna change the backup device to a DDS 4 20/40, i know you can do that.

I'm basically looking for the least hassle route of upgrading the server, i.e. not having to reinstall Windows.

Cheers

DB

chiark

Win2k is fairly flexible and should support dynamic reallocation of IRQ/DMA etc, but I would expect there to be some problems in regards to the mobo's built in features and required drivers.

TBH, I'd install Win2k and applications from scratch on a separate system disc, and use the drives that you're porting over as data drives (not system)

towzer

Chirak's right, it's wise to do a re-install. Most current motherboards have a USB implementation and some sort of ACPI power controller which has a significant impact on how the O/S behaves. The kernel on W2K is fine, you are refering to a problem on NT4 when going from a single to a dual (SMP) processor environment.

The bottom line is that you can probably get away with what you have stated in your original post, but experience shows that you'll end up having to do a re-build in the not too distant future.

Phil

ChrisB

I'd go for a fresh install - cleans out all the crap which can slow a server down.

MS have a guide to migrating SBS to a new platform here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...g/sbsdeply.asp