as of Jul 30th, 2004
Express5800/110Eh
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 Update 2
(KERNEL 2.4.21-15.ELsmp)


'A'---Verified, No drivers required
'B'---Verified, drivers provided
'C'---Not Verified
'D'---Not Supported
Installation on Individual HDDs / Installation on RAID drives / HDDs addition / Memories addition
/ LAN boards addition / AFT/ALB / Backup devices

Installation on Individual HDDs Top

-Hardware

Configuration Model/Device Code qty
HDDs
Config.1
(IDE)		 Express5800/110Eh
(Diskless Model/Pentium4 3GHz/Memory -MB)		 N8100-9351
512MB Memory N8102-187 4
80GB HDD N8150-181 1
109type Keyboard(W) Built-in 1
Mouse (PS2, 2 buttons) Built-in 1
HDDs
Config.2
(S-ATA)		 Express5800/110Eh
(Diskless Model/Pentium4 3GHz/Memory -MB)		 N8100-935 1
256MB Memory N8102-186 1
80GB HDD N8150-184 2
109type Keyboard(W) Built-in 1
Mouse (PS2, 2 buttons) Built-in 1
HDDs
Config.3
(SCSI)		 Express5800/110Eh
(Diskless Model/Pentium4 3GHz/Memory -MB)		 N8100-935 1
256MB Memory N8102-186 1
SCSI Controler (U320) N8103-75 1
36.3GB(1.0krpm) HDD N8150-157 1
109type Keyboard(W) Built-in 1
Mouse (PS2, 2 buttons) Built-in 1

-Verification

No. checklist result comment
Config.1 Config.2 Config.3
1 Installation of OS A A A(*1) Boot from installation CD-ROM(Update 2).
You can get images of Update 2 CD-ROMs from Red Hat Network.
2 HDD A A A cp/mv/diff.
3 FDD A A A
4 CDROM A A A
5 on-board LAN A A A telnet,ftp
6 Mouse/Keyboard A A A X-window
7 CPU A A A /proc/cpuinfo, Hyper-Threading/SMP
8 Memory A A A /proc/meminfo
(*1)
  1. At the beginnig of installation, you will see 'Warning' says 'No Hard drive have found...', then push 'YES'.
  2. At 'Devices' section, push 'Add Device'.
  3. At 'Select Device Driver to Load' section, select 'Adaptec Aic79xx SCSI Host Bus Adapter driver(aic79xx)' and push 'OK'.
  4. At 'Devices' section, puch 'Done'.

Installation on RAID drives Top

-Hardware

RAID
Config.1
DiskArray Controler[N8103-80]
(FW rev. 1L27)
additional Battery Unit[N8103-79]		 ┳ 36.3GB HDD
[N8150-157]		 RAID5

┣ 36.3GB HDD
[N8150-157]

┗ 36.3GB HDD
[N8150-157]
RAID
Config.2
DiskArray Controler[N8103-73A]
(FW rev. P661)		 ┳ 80GB HDD
[N8150-181]		 RAID5

┣ 80GB HDD
[N8150-181]

┗ 80GB HDD
[N8150-181]

-Verification

No. checklist result comment
Config.1 Config.2
1 Installation of OS A A Boot from installation CD-ROM
2 make a 4GB partition A A fdisk
3 Operational partitions in max. 14 14 fdisk
4 mke2fs, mount, umount A A OK
5 Read/Write A A cp/mv/diff
6 read/write on over 2GB partition A A OK
7 Rebuild at disk failure A A OK

HDDs addition Top

No. Model/Device Code result verification
1 IDE 40GB HDD N8150-180 A Connected with onboard IDE connecter and
DiskArray Controler[N8103-73A].
cp/mv/diff
2 IDE 80GB HDD N8150-181
3 IDE 120GB HDD N8150-168
4 S-ATA 80GB HDD N8150-184 A Connected with onboard S-ATA connecter.
cp/mv/diff
5 S-ATA 120GB HDD N8150-185
6 SCSI 36.3GB HDD N8150-157 A Connected with SCSI Controler[N8103-75] and
DiskArray Controler[N8103-80].
cp/mv/diff
7 SCSI 73.2GB HDD N8150-158

Memories addition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty result verification
1 additional Memory board 256MB ( DDR333 ) N8102-186 4 A total 1GB
2 additional Memory board 512MB ( DDR333 ) N8102-187 4 A total 2GB
3 additional Memory board 1GB ( DDR333 ) N8102-188 4 A total 4GB (maximum)

LAN boards addition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty result verification
1 1000BASE-T board N8104-103 1 A telnet,ftp
2 1000BASE-SX board(LowProfile) N8104-104 1 A
3 1000BASE-Tboard(2ch) N8104-113 1 A
4 1000BASE-SXboard N8104-84 1 A
5 1000BASE-SXboard(LowProfile) N8104-109 1 A
6 1000BASE-SXboard N8104-112 1 A
7 100BASE-TX board(2ch) N8104-86 1 A
8 100BASE-TX board N8104-88(LowProfile) 1 A
9 100BASE-TX board N8104-111 1 A

AFT/ALB Top
Verified AFT (Adapter Fault Tolerance)/ ALB (Adaptive Load Balancing) function, with Intel(R) iANS packege.


No. Model/Device Code qty result verification
AFT ALB
1 100BASE-TX board(2ch) N8104-86 1 B B AFT/ALB (*1)
2 1000BASE-T board(2ch) N8104-113 1 B - AFT(*1)
(*1)
At Intel(R) Website, seach by the driver names, and download newest iANS and ethernet driver packages.
driver package
e100 e100-2.3.43.tar.gz.tar
e1000 e1000-5.2.52.tar.gz.tar
iANS ians-3.0.2.tar.gz.tar

Backup devices Top

No. Model/Device Code qty result verification
1 SCSI Controler N8103-65 1 A(*1) Connected with the following backup devices.(*1)
2 built-in DAT(DDS1/2/3/4)(20GB) N8151-45 2 A Connected with [N8103-65].
Backup/Restore.
3 built-in DAT(DDS3/4/DAT72)(36GB) N8151-51 1 A
4 built-in AIT(25GB/35GB) N8151-34B 1 A
5 built-in AIT(50GB) N8151-46A 1 A
(*1)
You need to install the SCSI driver after the OS installation.
  1. Insert installation CD-ROM #4.
  2. Login as root, and do as follows. 
          # mount /mnt/cdrom
      # cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
      # rpm -ivh kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-15.EL.i686,rpm
      # cd
      # eject
  3. Edit /etc/modules.conf and add following line. 
          alias scsi_hostadapter a100u2w
  4. Do as follows. 
          # cd /boot
      # mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-15.ELsmp.img 2.4.21-15.ELsmp
  5. Reboot the system.

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