Jul. 31, 2009
Express5800/R120a-1
Distribution FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE (i386/amd64)
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 / Backup Devices

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Code Model

N8100-1511
N8100-1512
N8100-1513
N8100-1514
N8100-1515
R120a-1 2.5inch disk model ( diskless model)
DualCore Intel®Xeon®Processor E5502 1.86 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor E5504 2 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor E5520 2.26 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor X5550 2.66 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor X5570 2.93 GHz

N8100-1516
N8100-1517
N8100-1518
N8100-1519
N8100-1520
R120a-1 3.5inch disk model ( diskless model)
DualCore Intel®Xeon®Processor E5502 1.86 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor E5504 2 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor E5520 2.26 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor X5550 2.66 GHz
QuadCore Intel®Xeon®Processor X5570 2.93 GHz

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-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 2.5inch disk model
SAS-DAC
RAID1
Built-in Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs)
( or N8103-118 )
1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
2 3.5inch disk model
SATA/SAS-DAC
RAID1
N8103-116A/N8103-118A Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
3 2.5inch disk model
SAS-DAC
RAID5
Built-in Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs)
N8103-119 RAID upgrade kit
( or N8103-118 )
1
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
4 3.5inch disk model
SATA/SAS-DAC
RAID5
N8103-117A/N8103-118A Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs) 1
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
5 2.5inch disk model
SAS-DAC
RAID6
Built-in Disk Array Controller (for internal SATA/SAS HDDs)
N8103-119 RAID upgrade kit
( or N8103-118 )
1
Additional HDD (RAID6) 4
6 3.5inch disk model
SATA
Additional HDD 3

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1,2 Conf3,4 Conf5 Conf6
OS installation A A A A Boot from distribution's 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 A D Remove one HDD from the running system on Hotplug type.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID A A A D 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.

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Checklist Result Comment
X Window System A
(*1)
1024x768, thousands colors.
PS/2 keyboard A On text console
Built-in LAN ports A ssh and ftp
CPU information A dmesg
Memory information A dmesg
Maximum CPUs 2 Number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 96
(*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)
  1. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add following option into "Section ServerLayout".

    Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"

  2. Edit /etc/rc.conf and add folloing line and reboot system.

    dbus_enable="YES"
    hald_enable="YES"
(*2)
It is necessary to make and install PAE kernel in case memory amount is from 4GB.
On x86 system, less than 16GB memory is supported.
  1. Kernel souce is to be installed
  2. Make PAE kernel
    # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
    # config PAE
    # cd ../compile/PAE
    # make cleandepend
    # make depend
    # make
  3. Install PAE kernel
    # make install
  4. Restart the Operation System.

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Model/Device Result
Hard drive (HDD) 2.5inch SAS A
3.5inch SAS A
3.5inch SATA A
(*)
PCIe 2.0 #2B Slot ( x16 socket ) cannot be used because this operating system does not recognize it.

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