Table Of Contents - IBM 326 Type 8848 Installation Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Eserver Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Major components of the Eserver 326 Type 8848 server . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Removing the cover and bezel
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 3. Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Front view
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Using the baseboard management controller firmware update program . . . . 35
Using the RAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
POST beep code descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
POST error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ServerGuide problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Troubleshooting charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing a non-hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Viewing the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CD-ROM drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Diskette drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Expansion enclosure problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
General problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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