Hp Mediasmart Server Ex470 Software Download
Pablo Barjavel
Microsoft and HP spent a lot of time and energy at the January 2007 Consumer Electronics Show getting people pumped up about their entry into the "home server" market. Microsoft handled the software end, extolling the wonders of its Windows Home Server (WHS), while the HP troops let people ooh and aah over the sexy design of its MediaSmart Server (MSS).
The USB and eSATA ports can be used to add additional storage to the MSS (more about that shortly). But forget attaching printers or flash drives, since the MSS has no built-in print server and only supports flash drives for BIOS recovery.
I happened to stumble across another failing of the Tray application when I caught the Server having to reboot after an automatic update. First, there was no "system going down" message sent to all clients to warn of the impending reboot. Then, when the system went offline, there was no pop-up to indicate the change in status. The icon did change color and if you hovered the mouse over the icon you got a "Not connected to server" tooltip. But if it can pop-up a "Network Health is as risk warning" every time the Tray app and server reconnect, it should to the same when the server goes bye-bye.
Media Serving is supported through a Windows Media Connect (WMC) server for media serving to media players supporting WMC and those supporting only UPnP AV. The only configuration available for this feature is to enable / disable Media Library sharing on the Music, Photo and Video folders.
The iTunes server is actually handled by the Firefly media server, the open source media server previously known as mt-daapd that also supports the Roku SoundBridge audio player. The server runs on port 9999 and has a web interface (Figure 18) that can be reached there. You can login in as administrator with password firefly.
My last beef is that the MSS ignores the whole issue of server backup. Sure, all those clients may be safely backed up to the MSS. But what happens when the MSS power supply dies or the MSS gets killed by fire, flood or theft?
On April 30, 2009, HP announced the MediaSmart Server LX195 which was intended to be a low-cost entry into the Home Server market.[6] The new model featured a single internal 640 GB drive, a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom 230 processor, 1 GB of DDR2 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, and four USB ports for storage expansion. The software features included with the LX195 are the same as the initial launch features of the EX485/EX487 server
On September 14, 2009, HP launched two new MediaSmart servers. The EX490 comes with 1 TB of hard disk storage and costs $549, while the EX495 comes with 1.5 TB and costs $699 both 7200 rpm. The 490 comes with an Intel Celeron Processor 2.2 GHz and the 495 with an Intel Pentium Processor Dual Core 2.5 GHz.[7]
On November 30, 2010, The Windows Home Server team at Microsoft confirmed rumors that HP would not be offering hardware for the next version of Windows Home Server (codenamed "Vail"), and that HP would stop selling MediaSmart servers altogether after the end of the calendar year 2010.[8]
I recently switched my HP EX470 Mediasmart home server from the end-of-lifed Windows Home Server to OpenMediaVault. At least upon first impression, everything seems to be working other than the internal network adapter, so I've used a USB network adapter in lieu of that. I've pasted in my notes on the process below in case it helps anyone else making the transition.
I plugged a USB keyboard into the front USB port. Powering on the home server, I repeatedly tapped F12 for 10 seconds. Apparently, this will bring up the boot menu. There is no harm in over pressing F12, so you can keep pressing to be sure. After that, I carefully hit the down arrow on the keyboard exactly 7 times, which apparently selects the USB boot option, and then hit enter. Doing this a single time seems to apply it every time in the future, as my home server always boots from the USB drive now. The process was developed by people who hacked VGA output into their servers.
Back on the HP Mediasmart home server:
Using a USB keyboard, after power on as soon as the health LED begins to blink blue and red hit DELETE and it'll become solid (either blue or red depending on what it was when you hit delete) and enter the BIOS. Advice on the Internet suggests to wait 5 seconds after this to ensure it's in the BIOS. Press F10 and then ENTER to save and reboot. Repeat this process until you're fully comfortable with the process of blindly booting into the BIOS and safely saving and exiting.
Quirks:
As noted above, the internal Ethernet has serious problems. To read more about those problems, as well as more about how I got the BIOS working to recognize all four drives, see this thread.
The health light on the front of the server will continuously flash when it's booted - apparently it does that whenever Windows isn't installed.
The HP Mediasmart server have a built-in small flash partition for Windows recovery. This appears in OpenMediaVault as a 250MB drive connected to /dev/sda.
My HP Mediasmart is old enough that the CMOS battery is worn out. As a result, if the server is unplugged for an extended period, it will lose the BIOS settings, and I need to set the BIOS ATA mode again to re-enable drive bays 2 and 4.
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This site has given me a lot of insight into the conversion of the HP Home Media Server; I have a EX470 which I pick up on eBay earlier this year. Mainly because my World Book I had in service from 2009 till early this year when the power unit gave up, so time for something new. In comes a HP Media server which silly me thought I may be able to get it to work with W10. But no, so rethink, then I thought about Openmediavault. I read about the constant update the unit does and that the OS is on a flash Rom. I acquired a header cable from Germany very expensive, connected the SVG screen, keyboard and mouse. Then booted the gem up, I was surprised to find the IDE set up in the Cmos consisted of not only the four drives in the bays but, as follows:
I have an old HP mediasmart server that used to run Windows Home Server. It seems to meet the requirements of unRAID but I don't know if it can be configured to boot from a USB drive. So, I'm wondering if anyone in this community has tried (and hopefully succeeded) installing unRAID on this hardware.
I have made progress on this (if anyone looks at this old thread)
Upgraded CPU to dual core
Upgraded RAM to 4GB stick (only detects 2GB) had a 4GB kicking around so used it
The server sees 10TB disk in BIOS
Have yet to test Unraid on it, going to try to carve out some time to do that, and if all is well, I will be purchasing another license
Making old hardware 'new' again, or current
Make sure the password you use is at least 8 characters with at least one uppercase, lowercase, and number/symbol involved otherwise, I don't think the server fully installs itself. You have to visit the IP address of the server to finish the install (and this is why I would highly recommend assigning a static IP to your server's Ethernet jack)
Keep in mind the password requirements when configuring your cfg.ini file otherwise it won't install completely. One nice thing is that the OS itself will install, but won't finish it's configuration. If you know the IP address of your server (whether it's static or you've guessed a lot), you can use a web browser to complete the installation. Pretty nifty.
It worked like a charm for my on my 490. Yes, it is a bit tedious that you have to wipe yje first drive but besides that Ihaven't had any issue. Hmm, just realised that I forgot that WHS can't find a driver for a Silicon Image SATA driver. I did find a link for a Win7 x64 driver for it.
I bought 3 WD 2 TB green caviars and built a RAID5 with it by logging onto the console. However, it seems that you can't used the built-in server backup feature if you do this. Changed it back to 3 drives of 2 TB. The 3rd is used for server backups now. I did enable encryption on one of the drives. We'll see how things go with that.
Sofar I am quite happy with WHS2011 on the HP with 2 GB RAM. Too bad that the 3rd led keeps blinking blue.... I'll have to live with that.
Now I'm thinking about hooking up my USB printer. See if it'll share that as well like Server 2008 R2 itself does fine.
Glad it works Bob... and yeah, our backup only backs up to 2TB volumes. this is a windows server limitation that we inherited. if you do the printer, make sure you add the X86 drivers as well, otherwise your 32-bit clients won't get the driver.
Found my answer-turn on view of hidden files in folders and drives in control panel to see what my DATA D: drive contained. It contained my shared folders-video, pictures, and music from WHS v1. Nice!
Lesson learned the hard way-Remove drives before installing WHS 2011.
Still have problems with backing up my iMac to my server. The IMac time machine backup does not see the server as an option. Also Dashboard did not get installed.
I am able to stream music, pictures, and video to my PS3 and to my Apple TV via iTunes installed on my WHS 2011 server. No video hesitations! My ex495 with upgraded CPU, intel e75 and 4GB memory seems to run cooler now and isn't so busy as was V1. Just need to take care of blinking status light and iMac problems. Otherwise I love WHS 2011.
I assume wipe the partitions = delete them using Computer->Manage->Storage->Disk Management, selecting the partition, and hitting delete...tried that, and a second time with a different hard drive, and a third with a usb dvd drive. One possible issue: my server was having some issues, so it was actually in recovery mode when I decided to switch to 2011 (that was the primary motivation for the install)...does that change some bios setting that would keep it from installing? It seemed like a pain to do a system restore with the old OS and then another with the new one, but I can try it.
Thanks for the prompt reply!