Onboard Controllers/Ports; Ati Graphics Controller; Other Features; System Disks - Silicon Graphics Altix XE250 User Manual

1: Introduction

Onboard Controllers/Ports

ATI Graphics Controller

Other Features

System Disks

RAID Support

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One floppy drive connector and two onboard ATA/100 connectors (one reserved for the use of a
compact flash card) are provided to support IDE hard drives or ATAPI devices (not used). The
color-coded I/O ports include one COM port (an additional COM header is located on the node
board), a VGA (monitor) port, two USB 2.0 ports (three additional USB headers are included on
the node board), PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports and two gigabit Ethernet ports.
The SGI Altix XE250 features an integrated ATI video controller based on the ES1000 graphics
chip.
Other onboard features include voltage monitors, auto-switching voltage regulators, chassis and
CPU overheat sensors, virus protection, and BIOS rescue.
The SGI Altix XE250 server supports 8 serial ATA (SATA) or serial attached SCSI (SAS) system
disk drives.
The SGI Altix XE250 server supports a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i UIO or an or an
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LSI MegaRAID 8708ELP system drive controller to provide RAID support for the internal
system drives.
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