Okay, I've solved the problem. (Red in face) Whoever had the server before me not only removed the drives, they also disconnected the scsi cable that attaches the backplane to the main board. I'm not sure why they did that, but that solved my problem with the drives.
Now if I could just solve...
I've just put two new hot swap drives(ibm part # 19K0610) in my ibm xseries 350 (it came without any drives) but I don't seem to be configuring the system properly because they aren't found by the scsiselect utility program. The drives are getting power, because the green power light blinks on...
I've got an xseries 350 (8682-5RY) with two cpus and want to add two more to max it out. The cpus in the machine are 700/100/2M SL49S. I found a good deal on a pair of SL49R cpus that are also 700/100/2M so I bought them. However, I can't get them to work in the machine, getting a CPU error...
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