[dango99]

Hi.

I've just bought a 2nd user 4400 on ebay.
This box came with no hdds and only 2 caddies/sleds.
I have connected a spare 80gb drive to channel 1 and have switched the machine on.
The power LED and network LED are both lit. The HDD LED (near the drive) is also lit, so i know the unit can see the drive.

I don't know the IP address of the unit, and it's not showing up in the DHCP client list on my server, so i can't get in and do a disaster recovery installation of Guardian OS (i have the CD from another snap 4400).

What can i do??

I have tried holding the reset button down when powering on - this causes the machine to beep after 5ish seconds and still nothing else happens. I have also tried (as someone else suggested) waiting for a while and then just pressing the reset button once and letting the unit reboot - this one does even less - in fact it does nothing at all!!

i haven't tried serial console (because i don't have a pc to hand with a serial connector) and i haven't tried taking a drive out of my operational 4400 and booting with that - i don't want to potentially fry the data on the existing 4400! It would be just my luck for a drive to fail while the donor drive is working on the new machine.

any thoughts please?

also, IF i can get it going, i would like to know if anyone knows where i could purchase 4400 sleds from (ie not for $500 on ebay!)


Many thanks

dan