Jun. 1, 2009
Express5800/120Bb-m6
Distribution CentOS 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

N8400-046
N8400-048
N8400-049
N8400-071(A)
N8400-072A
N8400-073(A)
N8400-074(A)
Express5800/120Bb-m6
DualCore XeonProcessor 5130(2.0GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor X5355(2.66GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor E5345(2.33GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor E5460(3.16GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor L5420(2.50GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor E5405(2.0GHz)
DualCore XeonProcessor X5260(3.33GHz)
* You must update BMC firmware if it is old. See HERE.

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 Onboard RAID Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
Additional HDD (HotSpare) 1
* You must choose the same type of HDDs for a RAID drive.

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1
OS installation B
(*1,2)
Boot from distribution's CD/DVD media.
Making partitions 14 Using the whole drive
Hard Drives 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 I/O access running
Reboot 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 48
(*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 .

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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