PowerEdge 4300 Hardware questions

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@trueimage wrote:
I recently purchased a retired PE 4300 and I am wondering about all the hardware specs. I have read there are multiple models and I've searched the motherboard model number to no avail.

I have my service tag in my profile and the motherboard model is 8891P I think.

I'm wondering what CPUs and memory I can use, and what SCSI drives I can use to max this thing out.

Thanks!

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Not much difference between 2300 and 4300
They use Slot1 Cpus from 333mhz P2 to 1000mhz Coppermine P3 at 100mhz FSB.

SCSI Drives are standard SCA Ultra 320 type can work. They dont run at that speed but
thats whats available right now. With the PERC raid there is a 12 gig boot partition limit.
Largest Drive being 146 Gig SCA SCSI Drives.

Max Ram depends on BX or GX Chipset.

4300's have Bigger cases and Dual Power supplies whereas the 2300 has a single PSU.

So I should be able to run dual p3 coppermine 1ghz? What is the easiest way to see what chipset i have. My 4300 is fairly big and has 3 removable power supplies in the back. I think it takes 80-pin SCSI drives.


What do you mean by 12gb boot partition limit? What raid levels are supported?

I finally found my build info
and the motherboard looks like it is a GX chipset, which supports p3 xeon, slot 2.

1 8891P PRINTED WIRING ASSY, PLANAR (MOTHERBOARD), GX, H8F, P4300v

So can I use 133 fsb cpus or only 100 fsb? There should be some 1000mhz/2mb cache p3 xeons out there.

anyone got any info?