You'll need a copy of the H200 SBR which I don't have. Some Googling might get you a copy. You can grab the H200 firmware from the Dell site that has a batch file to do all the flashing in it. I believe once you flash the SBR and restart, the Dell batch file should take care of flashing the H200...
Here is a good read about which and why. Are there any markings on the 8087 connector end? It might say controller or something like that. It still could be something wrong with the card but it looks a lot like having the wrong cable.
SAS to SATA cables: Forward or Reverse Which, Where, Why
The name not changing isn't a problem. Some of mine have changed during the flashing process and some haven't. As for the drives not showing, you probably have reverse breakout cable and not a forward.
I've got a 2621xm with an old copy of IOS on it but this is beyond me. What version of IOS would I need? I guess if I could get this setup, I've got an older Intel V8 platform with dual x5355 xeons and 8gb of memory I could throw on it for an ESXi sandbox for you guys.
I have an Untangle box and a pfsense box but my Untangle sits infront of my pfsense box. I like having all the content/malware/spam filtering of Untangle but I like pfsense more for routing and it does my caching.
HP 1800-24G. I've got 1 and it's the coolest running switch I have. Touching it, it's hardly above room temp. I had it running in my garage last summer for something I was working on. It would get to about 115-120 in there and it never had a problem. It's about 72-73 in my home office where...
Arg, I bit on the 20 dollar G9 deal from BuyDig and stopped by my local BBY and picked up 2 MX Revolutions. I've already got 3 but can't go wrong with having cheap backups.
I've got a Dell PE 1950 with dual 2.66Ghz Xeons and 16GB of memory running ESXi 4.0. I've got a bunch of Server 2008, 2003 R2, Ubuntu, etc VM's for testing and running my home network.