as of Dec 8th, 2003
Express5800/140Rc-4
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 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 Express5800/140Rc-4(Diskless/Xeon MP 2.80GHz/Memory 1GB) N8100-926 1 A
CD-ROM boot installation complete
Keyboard confirmed recognizable/operational
Mouse confirmed recognizable/operational
Built-in LAN confirmed recognizable/operational
Enabling Hyper-Threading confirmed
73.2GB HDD N8150-172 1
Keyboard for Rack-Mounting(W) N8170-13 1
Mouse (PS2, two buttons) N8170-05 1

Disk Array composition Top

- Hardware configurations

Configuration 1
OS is installed into RAID drive.
Express5800
/140Rc-4
bar Disk Array
Controller

(N8103-81)
bar 146.5GB HDD
(N8150-171)
RAID1

bar 146.5GB HDD
(N8150-171)
Configuration 2
OS is installed into RAID drive.
Express5800
/140Rc-4
bar Disk Array
Controller
(N8103-81)
bar 36.3GB HDD
(N8150-165)

RAID5

bar 36.3GB HDD
(N8150-165)

bar 36.3GB HDD
(N8150-165)
F/W Revs are factory configuration.
MegaRAID U320 CH2(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
1 73.2GB HDDN8150-163 1AConnected with built-in SCSI controller
Confirmed by writing and reading data.
2 18.1GB HDDN8150-164 1A
3 36.3GB HDDN8150-165 3A
4 146.5GB HDDN8150-171 3A
5 73.2GB HDDN8150-172 1A
6 36.3GB HDDN8150-162 2A Connected with disk array controller [N8103-81]
Confirmed by writing and reading data.
7 73.2GB HDDN8150-163 3A
8 36.3GB HDDN8150-165 3A
9 146.5GB HDDN8150-171 3A
10 73.2GB HDDN8150-172 1A

CPU addition
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No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 Xeon MP 2.80GHz CPU kit N8101-268 3 A
Hyper-Threading/smp operational

Memory Addition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 1GB Memory Module N8102-125 3 A Capacity recognizable/operational
2 2GB Memory Module N8102-126 3 A Capacity recognizable/operational
3 4GB Memory Module N8102-127 3 A Capacity recognizable/operational
4 8GB Memory Module N8102-180 3 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 N8104-85 2 B B AFT/ALB confirmed operational.(*1)
2 100BASE-TX (2ch) N8104-86 1 B B
3 100BASE-TX N8104-111 2 B B
4 1000BASE-SX N8100-84 2 B D AFT confirmed operational.(*1)
5 1000BASE-T N8104-103 2 B D
7 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 Built-in SCSI controller (AIC7902) 1 A Connected with following devices.
2 Built-in DAT N8151-45 1 A Connected with Built-in SCSI controler.
Confirmed by backup/restore.
3 Built-in AIT N8151-34A 1 A
4 Built-in AIT N8151-34B 1 A
5
SCSI controller N8103-65(*1)1A Connected with following devices.
6 Device Expansion Unit N8141-28A1A Connected with [N8103-65] SCSI controller.
7 Built-in DAT N8151-12BC 1 A Connected with [N8103-65],[N8141-28A].
Confirmed by backup/restore.
8 Built-in DAT N8151-45 1 A
9 Built-in AIT N8151-34A 1 A
10 Built-in AIT N8151-34B 1 A
11 Built-in AIT
( F/W version: 01np )
N8151-41A 1 A
12
SCSI controller N8103-65(*1)1A Connected with following devices.
13 Device Expansion Unit N8141-28A1A Connected with [N8103-65] SCSI controller.
14 Built-in AIT N8151-40 1 A Connected with [N8103-56],[N8141-28A].
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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