Jul. 2, 2010
Express5800/B120b
Distribution CentOS 4.8 (x86/x86_64)
( KERNEL 2.6.9-89.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
Model / OS Installation / Basic operation / Hardware addition

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Code Model

N8400-114
N8400-110		 Express5800/B120b
Intel® Xeon® Processor L5640 (2.26GHz)
Intel® Xeon® Processor X5670 (2.93GHz)

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 SATA N8403-027 SATA interface card 1
Additional HDD 2
2 SATA/SAS
RAID1		 N8403-026 RAID Controller 1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1 Conf2
OS installation A
(*1,2,3)		 B
(*1,2,3)		 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 00.00.04.01n-RH1
igb 1.3.8.6

[How to Update]
  1. Make driver disk from EXPRESSBUILDER(DVD).
  2. When 'boot:' is displayed at the beginning of installation, type and enter following strings.
    x86 system linux dd usb-handoff apic=bigsmp
    x86_64 system linux dd usb-handoff
(*2)
x86_64 system needs largesmp kernel. If it is not installed, do as follows.
  1. Install largesmp kernel from install DVD or CD2.
    # mount /media/cdrom
    # rpm -ivh /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm
    # eject
  2. Update drivers from EXPRESSBUILDER
    # mount /media/cdrom
    # cd /media/cdrom/009/lnx/os/RHAS4_EM64T/driver/
    # tar -C / -zxvf e1000/e1000_2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp.x86_64.tar.gz
    # tar -C / -zxvf igb/igb_2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp.x86_64.tar.gz
    # tar -C / -zxvf megaraid_sas/megaraid_sas_2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp.x86_64.tar.gz
    # cd
    # eject
  3. Make initrd.img.
    # depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp 2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp
    # mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp.img 2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp
  4. Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and set 'default=0'.
  5. Reboot the system.
(*3)NECESSARY
Disable EDAC modules. EDAC module will prevent hardware from collecting IPMI logs which is necessary for hardware support.
  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.

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 about bonding.
CPU information A cat /proc/cpuinfo
Memory information A cat /proc/meminfo
Maximum CPUs 2 Number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 128
(*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)
Scroll Wheel of PS/2 mouse dose not work on BladeServer assembly unit(SIGMABLADE-M)

(*2)
Driver igb has been updated.

(*3)
On x86 system, hugemem kernel is available in case memory amount is from 16GB to 16GB.
See Red Hat Linux documents about its hardware support.

Hardware Addition UP

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

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