Jun. 1, 2009
Express5800/120Bb-6
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 (x86/x86_64)
( KERNEL 2.6.9-78.EL )
Meanings of letters
A ---Function without third party drivers
B ---Function with third party drivers
C ---Not function
D ---Not Supported
blank---Not tested
OS Installation / Basic operation / Hardware addition

Code Model

N8400-029, N8400-050
N8400-030, N8400-051
N8400-031, N8400-052
N8400-032, N8400-053(A)
N8400-033
N8400-037
N8400-057(A)
N8400-058A
N8400-059(A)
N8400-060(A)
N8400-062(A)
Express5800/120Bb-6
DualCore XeonProcessor 5160(3.0GHz)
DualCore XeonProcessor 5110(1.6GHz)
DualCore XeonProcessor 5130(2.0GHz)
DualCore XeonProcessor 5148(2.33GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor X5355(2.66GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor E5345(2.33GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor X5460(3.16GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor L5420(2.50GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor E5405(2.0GHz)
DualCore XeonProcessor X5260(3.33GHz)
DualCore XeonProcessor E5205(1.86GHz)
* You must update BMC firmware if it is old. See HERE.

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 SAS Additional HDD 2
2 SAS-DAC
RAID1
N8403-019 Disk Array Controller 1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
* You must choose the same type of HDDs for a RAID drive.
* LSI Logic Embedded MegaRAID is not available on this Linux.

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1 Conf2
OS installation A
(*1,2)
B
(*1,2)
Boot from distribution's CD/DVD media.
Making partitions 14 14 Using the whole drive
Hard Drives A A Copy and compare data files.
Availability of Degraded RAID - A Remove one HDD from the running system.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID - A Rebuild automatically
I/O access running 12h 12h I/O access running
Reboot 10 10 The number of times.
(*1)
Update following dirivers with a driver disk.
megaraid_sas 00.00.03.18n-rh2
e1000 7.6.15.5-NAPI

[How to Update]
  1. Get aproriate dd.img from this file and make Driver Disk.
  2. Boot from Installation CD/DVD media and 'boot:' is displayed, type and enter following strings.
    linux dd usb-handoff
(*2)NECESSARY
Disable EDAC modules.
  1. Add following sentences to /etc/modprobe.conf.
    install *_edac /bin/true
    install edac_* /bin/true
  2. Restart the Operation System.
  3. Check that string "edac" is not shown in the result of lsmod command.

Basic operation UP

Checklist Result Comment
X Window System A 1024x768, thousands colors.
Mouse/keyboard A
(*1)
Test on X Window System.
Built-in LAN ports B
(*2)
ssh and ftp
Built-in LAN ports Teaming (bonding) A Use bonding driver. See the kernel document for information about bonding.
CPU information A cat /proc/cpuinfo
Memory information A cat /proc/meminfo
Maximum CPUs 2 Number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 32
(*3)
Size of Main Memory. (GB)
Optical disk drive A Copy and compare data files.
Floppy drive A
Serial port A Configure to login.
(*1)
To fix Keyboard problem, BMC firmware must be updated.
Scroll Wheel of PS/2 mouse dose not work on BladeServer assembly unit(SIGMABLADE-M)

(*2)
Driver e1000 has been updated.

(*3)
Use hugemem kernel in case memory amount exceeds 16GB .
RHEL AS 4 On RHEL5 x86_64 system, menory amount is not limited.
See Red Hat Linux documents about its hardware support.

Hardware Addition UP

Model/Device Result
Hard drive (HDD) 2.5inch SAS A
LAN Adapters (*1)
(*1)
See ( HERE ), Option Devices page.

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