Table Of Contents - Intel SE8500HW4 Hardware Manual

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Test Overview.......................................................................................................... 6
1.1.1 Compatibility Testing ............................................................................................... 6
1.1.2 Stress Testing.......................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria ............................................................................................. 7
2. SE8500HW4 Base System Configurations......................................................................... 9
3. Supported Operating Systems.......................................................................................... 10
3.1 Operating System Certifications ............................................................................ 11
4. Adapters and Peripherals.................................................................................................. 12
4.1 PCI-X/PCI Express RAID....................................................................................... 13
4.2 PCI-X/PCI SCSI ..................................................................................................... 13
4.3 PCI-X/PCI Express Fibre Channel......................................................................... 14
4.4 PCI-X/PCI Express Network Interface Card .......................................................... 14
4.5 USB Keyboard & Mouse ........................................................................................ 14
4.6 Tape Drive ............................................................................................................. 15
4.7 Slim Optical Drive .................................................................................................. 15
4.8 USB Floppy & Key Fob Memory Device ................................................................ 15
4.9 Keyboard/Video/Mouse (KVM) Switch................................................................... 15
5. On-Board Components ...................................................................................................... 16
5.1 SCSI Controller...................................................................................................... 16
5.2 Gigabit Ethernet Controller .................................................................................... 16
5.3 Video Controller ..................................................................................................... 16
5.4 Optional Mass Storage Controllers........................................................................ 16
6. Hard Disk Drives................................................................................................................. 17
7. Installation Guidelines ....................................................................................................... 18
7.1 Front panel video output does not function with shipped ATI* driver for Microsoft*
Windows* 2003 Enterprise Edition versions ............................................................................ 18
7.2 System will hang at startup when both the Adaptec* ASR-2230SLP and LSI Logic*
LSI22320-R are installed ......................................................................................................... 18
7.3 Unable to install Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition to drives attached
to an Adaptec ASR2230SLP ................................................................................................... 18
7.4 LSI Logic MegaRAID2* driver does not load correctly with Red Hat* Enterprise
Linux 3 Update 4 EM64T ......................................................................................................... 18
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