Advice for a RaQ3 and a RaQ4
Hi all,
I recently aquired a RaQ3 and a RaQ4 from my office as they no longer needed them. I'm after a little help/advice as to how I might get them integrated into my home network to use as a backup/music streaming box (NAS).
I am completely new to rack computers, although I am reasonably experienced with home and small office networking. I know linux well as I have my own ubuntu box which I use as a programming sandbox and testing server and music streaming and backup and lots of other things. Its a standard tower computer that has ubuntu installed. I know a bit of bash to get me by.
I have not idea what is on these racks but I have tried turning them on. Here is what happened:
RaQ3:
- Switched on fine, both hard disks spun up and it sounded like they read boot sectors ok.
- Sat there for a while and the display on the front showed the top line of the dot matrixes all lit up like square blocks.
- It didn't do anything else, no status lights on the front and no NIC lights at the rear.
- The router's corresponding lights for the ports used also didnt light up, so def no network connection.
- All other hardware (fans etc) seem to be in full working order.
RaQ4:
- Switched on and made a horrible noise, paniced and turned it off. Thought I may as well find out what is exactly wrong if it is buggered so I can rescue other working parts. A second power up with my ear at the ready told me it was just the bearings on the CPU fan, so nothing huge to worry about.
- Front display showed cobalt logo and went through a boot sequence. Loading kernel. Checking disk.
- A single star appeared under "checking disk" on the right hand side but then nothing happened. I thought it was too long for the rack to be on with a faulty cpu fan so I didn't wait any longer.
- In the mean time, network connections seemed to be better than the RaQ3, NIC status was ticked and sent and recieved packets ok. Same for corresponding lights on router.
- Front status lights: Rx/Tx flickered as one might expect, disk and 100m also lit but the others not.
Any suggestions on what I should do to get at least one of them working?
I mean how would I get into them - is there some kind of set-up mode where I can set the ip address etc?
Presumably I would have to ssh into the rack to administer it. Bum I don't know the password.
Any pointers/help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.