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PowerEdge T710 Technical Guidebook
14.7 Internal Storage Controllers
T710 supports a choice of two internal 3GB SAS HDD controllers. The internal controller is placed in
the dedicated storage slot on the motherboard.
14.8 LED Indicators
Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED
for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (Green/Amber) LED for status information. The activity LED is
driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The bicolor LED is controlled by the SEP device on
the backplane. Both LEDs indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller.
14.9 Optical Drives
SATA optical drives are optional and connect to the planar via a SATA interface. IDE optical drives are
no longer supported. The following optical drives are available on T710: DVD-ROM and DVD+RW.
If the optical drive is not ordered with the system, a blank is installed in its place. In the absence of tape
drive, an optional second SATA optical drive is installed in the bay adjacent to the first optical drive.
14.10 Tape Drives
Tape drives are optional and connect to the planar via SATA/SCSI controller card/SAS controller card.
IDE tape drive is no longer supported. The following tape drives are available for usage on T710:
internal SATA, SCSI, and SAS drives; external SCSI and SAS drives.
If the tape drive is not ordered with the system, a blank is installed in its place.
T710 supports a number of internal tape backup options, plus the RD1000 disk backup unit. Only half-
height backup options are supported.
15
Video
15.1 Overview
The T710 system Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video
subsystem, connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH. This logic is based on the Matrox G200.
The device only supports 2D graphics.
The integrated video core shares its video memory with the iDRAC's 128 MB DDR2 application space
memory. This memory is also used for the KVM buffer.
The T710 system supports the following 2D graphics video modes:
DELL
Table 16.
Video Descriptions
Resolution
Refresh Rate (Hz)
640 x 480
60, 72, 75, 85
800 x 600
56, 60, 72, 75, 85
1024 x 768
60, 72, 75, 85
1152 x 864
1280 x 1024
1280 x 1024
Color Depth (bit)
8, 16, 32
8, 16, 32
8, 16, 32
75
8, 16, 32
60, 75, 85
60
8, 16
32
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