May 8, 2008
Express5800/i120Ra-e1
Distribution FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
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

N8100-1452Y
N8100-1453Y
Express5800/i120Ra-e1 ( diskless model)
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor L5410 2.33GHz
DualCore Intel®Xeon®Processor L5240 3GHz

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 SATA/SAS-DAC
RAID1
N8103-116/118 Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
N8160-74 External FDD(USB) 1
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
2 SATA/SAS-DAC
RAID5
N8103-117/118 Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
N8160-74 External FDD(USB) 1
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
3 SATA Additional HDD 3
N8160-74 External FDD(USB) 1
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
* SATA and SAS HDDs cannot be mixed.
* 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 Conf3
OS installation A A A Boot from distribution's CD-ROM.
Making partitions 28 28 28 Using the whole drive
Hard Drives A A A Copy and compare data files.
Availability of Degraded RAID
( Hotplug.)
A A - Remove one HDD from the running system.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID
( Hotplug.)
A A - Rebuild automatically
I/O access running 12h 12h 12h I/O access running
Reboot 10
(*1)
10
(*1)
10
(*1)
The number of times.
(*1)
In case it takes long time to boot, edit /boot/loader.conf adding following two lines.
hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1"
hint.psm.0.disabled="1"

Basic operation UP

Checklist Result Comment
X Window System C
(*1)
1024x768, thousands colors.
PS/2 keyboard A on text console
Built-in LAN ports A ssh and ftp
CPU information A check dmesg
Memory information A check dmesg
Maximum CPUs 2 Number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 4
(*2)
Size of Main Memory. (GB)
Optical disk drive A Copy and compare data files.
Floppy drive A
Serial port A Configure to login.
(*1)
X Window System dose not run.

(*2)
Up to 4GB on default kernel.

Hardware Addition UP

Model/Device Result
Hard drive (HDD) 3.5inch SATA A
3.5inch SAS A

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