as of Dec 8th, 2003
Express5800/120Lg
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
(KERNEL 2.4.21-4.ELsmp)
The following letters given to evaluation results stand for:
'A'---operational on the distributed OS
'B'---operational with update driver applied to the distributed OS
'C'---not operational
'D'---not supported
Installation in standard composition / Disk Array composition / HDD addition
/ CPU addition / Memory addition / LAN addition / AFT/ALB Operations / Backup devices

Installation in standard composition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 Express5800/120Lg (Diskless/Xeon 3.06 GHz/MEM 512MB) N8100-962 1 A
CD-ROM boot installation complete
Keyboard confirmed recognizable/operational
Mouse confirmed recognizable/operational
Hyper-Threading confirmed
146.5GB HDDN8150-1711
109 type Keyboard(W)N8170-091
Mouse (PS2, two buttons)N8170-051

Disk Array composition Top

- Hardware Configurations

Configuration 1
OS is installed into RAID drive.
Express5800
/120Lg
„ª Disk Array
Controller

(N8103-80)
T 73.2GB HDD
(N8150-163)
RAID5

L 73.2GB HDD
(N8150-163)

L 73.2GB HDD
(N8150-163)
Configuration 2
OS is installed into RAID drive.
Express5800
/120Lg
- Disk Array
Controller
(N8103-81)
T 146.5GB HDD
(N8150-171)

RAID 1

L 146.5GB HDD
(N8150-171)
F/W Revs are factory configuration.
MegaRAID U320 CH2(N8103-80): 1L27
MegaRAID U320 CH1(N8103-81): 1L27

- RAID drive operations

No. Evaluation Result Comment
Cfg.1 Cfg.2
1 Operating system installation A A Installation by booting from CD-ROM drive
2 Create a partition of 4GB or more A A Confirmed by writing and reading data.
3 Make a file system, mount and unmount it A A
4 Read/Write at over 2GB region A A
5 Maximum Number of Partitions 14 14
6 Disk failure/Auto Rebuild A A Auto Rebuild after replacing dead HDD.

HDD addition
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No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
173.2GB HDD N8150-163 3A Connected with disk array controller [N8103-80]
Confirmed by writing and reading data.
1A Connected with built-in SCSI controller
Confirmed by writing and reading data.
236.3GB HDDN8150-162 1A
3146.5GB HDDN8150-171 1A
2A Connected with disk array controller [N8103-81]
Confirmed by writing and reading data.

CPU addition
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No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 Xeon 3.06GHz CPU kit N8101-263 1 A
Hyper-Threding, smp operational

Memory Addition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 512MB Memory Module N8102-159 1 A Capacity recognizable/operational
2 1GB Memory Module N8102-160 2 A Capacity recognizable/operational

LAN addition
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No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 100BASE-TX (2ch) N8104-86 1 A Confirmed by telnet and ftp.
2 100BASE-TX N8104-111 1 A
3 1000BASE-SX N8104-84 1 A
4 1000BASE-T N8104-103 1 A
5
1000BASE-T (2ch) N8104-113 1 A

AFT / ALB Operations Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
AFT ALB
1 100BASE-TX (2ch) N8104-86 1 B B AFT/ALB confirmed operational.(*1)
2 100BASE-TX N8104-111 2 B B
3 1000BASE-SX N8100-84 2 B D AFT confirmed operational.(*1)
4 1000BASE-T N8104-103 2 B D
5 1000BASE-T (2ch) N8104-113 1 B D
* AFT (Adaptive Fault tolerance) / ALB (Adaptive Load Balancing)
*Please refer How to configure AFT/ALB.

(*1)
Confirmed operational the functions by applying the following drivers.
Search them by driver names at [ Intel(R) download site ] .
driverversionpackage
ians 2.3.30iANS-2.3.30.tar.gz
e100 5.2.20e100-5.2.20.tar.gz
e10002.3.63ae1000-2.3.63a.tar.gz

Backup Devices Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1
SCSI controller N8103-65(*1)1A Connected with following devices.
2 Device Expansion Unit N8141-28A1A Connected with SCSI controller [N8103-65].
3 Built-in DAT N8151-12BC 1 A Connected with Built-in SCSI intarface and [N8103-65].
Confirmed by backup/restore.
4 Built-in AIT N8151-34A 1 A
5 Built-in DAT N8151-45 1 A Connected with [N8103-65].
Confirmed by backup/restore.
6
SCSI controller N8103-561A Connected with following devices.
7 Built-in LTO N8151-40 1 A Connected with [N8103-56] SCSI interface.
Confirmed by backup/restore.
(*1)
A driver software is in /Redhat/RPMS directory of 'Red Hat Linux installation CD3'. Install it as follows.
# rpm -ivh kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-4.EL.i686.rpm
# rpm -ivh kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-4.EL.i686.rpm
Add 'modprobe a100u2w' in the end of a file '/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit'. And reboot the system.
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