Adapters And Peripherals - Intel SE8500HW4 Hardware Manual

Adapters and Peripherals

4. Adapters and Peripherals
Add-in adapter card and peripheral compatibility and stress testing was performed with the
latest available version of an operating system and card software (driver, BIOS, firmware, etc.)
at the time the validation testing occurred. Please contact the card vendor for current available
software.
Note that not all adapter cards may have been tested under all operating systems. The
following notation is used in the tested adapters and peripherals table below to indicate the
support level that Intel provides for a particular adapter under a particular operating system:
Number (i.e. 1)
Number in brackets (i.e. [1])
NT
ND
Any variations to the standard adapter installation process or to expected adapter functionality
are documented in the Installation Guidelines section of this document. If there are installation
guidelines affecting a particular adapter and operating system combination, these are
referenced in the following table. If there is not an installation guideline noted in the following
table, then the adapter installed and functioned as expected using manufacturer's installation
instructions or Intel's best-known methods.
Testing of adapters cards normally is performed with unused add-in adapters
and onboard controller expansion ROMs disabled in BIOS Setup. Intel
recommends that customers disable the option ROM for add-in controllers
and/or the on-board controllers when not booting from the controller or needing
to use its built in utilities.
*New for THOL v1.4*
A superscript designation has been added to each adapter (sections 4.1-4.4) to help illustrate
what level of testing it received and whether or not the driver is available in the base OS. The
designations are as follows:
P1 The adapter received full stress testing in a fully loaded configuration
The adapter received compatibility testing ensuring it worked with other
P2
adapters in a fully loaded configuration but received no stress testing
NAT The driver for this adapter is available natively in the base OS
The adapters are divided into categories below based on their functionality.
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This adapter or peripheral has been tested and is supported under the specific
configuration identified in the base system configurations table in Section 2 of this
document.
This adapter or peripheral has been tested, but is NOT supported under the specific
configuration identified in the base system configurations table in Section 2 of this
document.
This adapter or peripheral has not been tested under this operating system and is not
supported under this operating system.
This adapter or peripheral has not been tested under this operating system due to
limitations in Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV) driver availability, and is not
suported under this operating system.
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