I don't have any Xserves that I work with any longer (and haven't had any in a very long time) and I would never advise keeping any running in ANYthing approaching any critical role(s).Īpple's decision is what it is, we can talk about it ad nauseum but our talk won't change a thing about the reality :-) The decision to not support 10.12 on the machine was an arbitrary one by Apple. I think you can get Sierra going on it without too much effort, but I haven't tried, because all the hardware is compatible. See īut then you can run Server 5.2 which you DO want to do.An Xserve3,1 (2009) is officially supported up to 10.11.6. Looks like the newest OS X you can run on an Xserver is 10.10 with plenty of caveats. Then go with Samba with the vfs_fruit module enabled, as discussed here: Press the sides of the plastic end housing the cable to release it from the metal carrier, in order to get better access to the cable.įrom there, yes, try a Linux distro, make sure they list the Xserve as supported. With this adapter, reported as working successfully,īUT you need to modify the SATA cable in the Apple Drive Module/carrier, shaving off the center tab as shown in the image below: He said that 1 TB 2.5' SATA drives worked, using the following:

I tried the Internet Archive but his old blog posting wasn't captured by them. I have an OLD note about this (from June 2011), from Matt Federoff (see ). At this point, you need to replace the hard drives.

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