Jul. 13, 2009
Express5800/iR110a-1H
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

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Code Model

N8100-1574F
Express5800/iR110a-1H 2.5inch disk model(diskless)
Intel®Core™2 Duo Processor T9400 2.53 GHz

N8100-1573Y
Express5800/iR110a-1H 3.5inch disk model(diskless)
Intel®Core™2 Duo Processor T8400 2.26 GHz

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 SATA Additional HDD 2
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
2 SAS-HBA N8103-104A SAS-HBA 1
Additional HDD 6
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
3 SATA/SAS
DAC(LSI)
RAID1
N8103-116 RAID Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
4 SAS
DAC(LSI)
RAID5
N8103-117 RAID Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
5 SATA/SAS/SSD
DAC(PROMISE)
RAID1
N8103-109 RAID Controller (for internal SATA/SAS/SSD HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
N8160-81 External FDD(USB) 1
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1
6 SAS/SSD
DAC(PROMISE)
RAID5
N8103-109 RAID Controller (for internal SATA/SAS/SSD HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
N8160-81 External FDD(USB) 1
N8160-64 External DVD-Drive(USB) 1

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1 Conf2 Conf3,4 Conf5,6
OS installation A A A B
(*1)
Boot from distribution's CD/DVD media.
Making partitions 28 28 28 28 Using the whole drive
Hard Drives A A A A Copy and compare data files.
Availability of Degraded RAID - - A A Remove one HDD from the running system on Hotplug type.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID - - A A Rebuild automatically on Hotplug type.
I/O access running 12h 12h 12h 12h I/O access running
Reboot 10 10 10 10 The number of times.
(*1)
Update following dirivers with a driver disk.
  1. Get the driver package FreeBSD7.0-100000001.tar.gz from PROMISE TECHNOLOGY,INC
  2. Make a driver diskette and install drivers as directed by readme.txt. You should take /dev/fd0 as /dev/da1 in readme.txt.

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Checklist Result Comment
X Window System C
(*1)
1024x768, thousands colors.
PS/2 keyboard A On text console
Built-in LAN ports B
(*2)
ssh and ftp
CPU information A check dmesg
Memory information A check dmesg
Maximum CPUs 1 Number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 4
(*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)
X Window System dose not run.

(*2)
You must update ether driver 'em'. Get updated driver em-6.9.5.tar.gz or later version from Intel website.

(*3)
Default kernel can recognize up to 4GB memory.

Hardware Addition UP

Model/Device Result
Hard drive (HDD) 3.5inch SATA A
2.5inch SAS A
2.5inch SSD A

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