| Configuration 1 OS is installed into RAID drive. | |||||
| Express5800 /120Lg |
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Disk Array Controller (N8103-81) |
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73.2GB HDD (N8150-163) |
RAID1 |
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73.2GB HDD (N8150-163) | ||||
| Express5800/120Lg |
| Distribution |
Red Hat Linux 7.3 (KERNEL 2.4.18-3smp) |
| 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 / LAN adapter addition / Backup device |
| Installation in standard composition | Top |
| No. | Model/Device | Code | qty | Result | Evaluation |
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| 1 | Express5800/120Lg (Diskless/Xeon 1.80 GHz/MEM 256MB) | N8100-865 | 1 | B |
CD-ROM boot installation complete (*1)(*2) Keyboard confirmed recognizable/operational Mouse confirmed recognizable/operational Hyper-Threading confirmed |
| 2 | 18.1GB HDD | N8150-164 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 109 type Keyboard(W) | N8170-09 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Mouse (PS2, two buttons) | N8170-05 | 1 |
(*1)
A driver diskette is needed for OS installation into disks on the built-in SCSI controller.
- Driver diskette- OS installation using a driver diskette
- Download a diskette imege ( filename: aic79xx-1.3.5-i686-rh73.img ) from [ here ] or [ Adaptec(R) ]
- Rename it to 'dd.img' .
- Open a DOS command prompt and execute 'rawrite.exe'. The utility rawrite.exe is in /dosutils directory in the Red Hat Linux Installation CD1.
According to directions, insert a DOS-formatted floppy diskette, type the path of the image file as 'c:¥dd.img' and the floppy disk drive name as 'a'.
(*2)
- Insert an Installation CD to boot.
- When displayed as "boot: ", type "linux dd" and enter.
Then, insert the driver diskette according to directions.- After this step continue with install as normal.
CD-ROM Drive should not be used in DMA mode. Please add /etc/rc.sysinit following description and reboot the system in order to turn DMA off.# disable ide-cd DMA for i in /proc/ide/hd[a-z] do MEDIA=`cat ${i}/media` if [ ${MEDIA} = "cdrom" ] then /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/`basename ${i}` fi done
| Disk Array composition | Top |
- Hardware Configurations
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| * | F/W Revs are factory configuration. | ||
| MegaRAID U320 CH1(N8103-81) | : 1L23 | ||
| MegaRAID U320 CH2(N8103-80) | : 1L23 | ||
- OS installation
| No. | Evaluation | Result | Comment | |
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| Confg.1 | Confg.2 | |||
| 1 | Operating system installation | B |
B |
Completed the installation by booting from CD-ROM drive (*1) |
(*1)
A driver diskette is needed for OS installation with [N8103-80]/[N8103-81].
- Driver diskette- OS installation using a driver diskette
- Download a driver package ( filename: RH118h.tgz ) including diskette images from [ here ] or [ LSI Logic Corporation(R) ]
- Extract it and get a diskette image file ( filename: dud-rh73-118h ).
- Rename it to 'dd.img'.
- Open a DOS command prompt and execute 'rawrite.exe'. The utility rawrite.exe is in /dosutils directory in the Red Hat Linux Installation CD1.
According to directions, insert a DOS-formatted floppy diskette, type the path of the image file as 'c:¥dd.img' and the floppy disk drive name as 'a'.
- Insert an Installation CD to boot.
- When displayed as 'boot: ', type 'linux dd' and push enter-key to get into driver-diskette mode.
Then, insert the driver diskette according to directions.- After this step continue with install as normal.
- RAID drive operations
| No. | Evaluation | Result | Comment | |
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| Confg.1 | Confg.2 | |||
| 1 | Create partitions | B |
B | Successfully created partition of 4GB capacity. Confirmed operational. |
| 2 | Create a file system, mount it and unmount it | B | B | Confirmed operational. |
| 3 | Read/Write | B | B | Data copied/verified. Confirmed operational. |
| 4 | Over 2GB partition |
B | B | Data copied/verified. Confirmed operational. |
- Disk Failure
| No. | Evaluation | Result | Comment | |
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| Confg.1 | Confg.2 | |||
| 1 | Auto Rebuild at disk failure, HDD dead | B | B | Confirmed Auto Rebuild function after replacing dead HDD. |
- Maximum Number of Partitions
| No. | Evaluation | Result | Comment | |
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| Confg.1 | Confg.2 | |||
| 1 | Operational partitions in max. | 14 | 14 | Simultaneously available partitions |
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HDD addition |
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| No. | Model/Device | Code | qty | Result | Evaluation |
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| 1 | 18.1GB HDD | N8150-164 | 1 | B | Connected with built-in SCSI controller (*1) Confirmed by reading and writing. |
| 2 | 73.2GB HDD | N8150-163 | 1 | B | Connected with built-in SCSI controller (*1) Confirmed by reading and writing. |
| 2 | B | Connected with disk array controller (*2) Confirmed by reading and writing. |
(*1)
See the "Installation in standard composition".
(*2)
See the "Disk Array composition".
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CPU addition |
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| No. | Model/Device | Code | qty | Result | Evaluation |
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| 1 | Additional CPU kit(Xeon 1.80 GHz) | N8101-242 | 1 | A |
Confirmed Hyper-Threding, smp operational |
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LAN adapter addition |
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| No. | Model/Device | Code | qty | Result | Evaluation |
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| 1 | 100BASE-TX adapter (2ch) | N8104-86 | 1 | A | Confirmed operational via Telnet /FTP (*1) |
| 2 | 1000BASE-SX adapter | N8104-84 | 1 | A | Confirmed operational via Telnet /FTP |
| 3 | 1000BASE-T adapter | N8104-103 | 1 | A | Confirmed operational via Telnet /FTP |
(*1)
Default-configured "eepro100" occasionally malfunction. For this reason, the driver "e100" should be applied.
- Alter "/etc/modules.conf" in the same quantity as NIC as below:
- (Before altering) alias eth0 eepro100
- (After altering) alias eth0 e100
- Reboot the system.
- Command "lsmod" shows that "e100" is loaded.
| Backup Devices | Top |
| No. | Model/Device | Code | qty | Result | Evaluation |
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SCSI Controller | N8103-65 | 1 | A | Connected with following devices. (*1) |
| 2 | Built-in DAT | N8151-12BC | 1 | A | Connected with [N8103-65]. Confirmed by backup/restore. |
| 3 | Built-in DLT | N8151-17 | 1 | A | Connected with [N8103-65]. Confirmed by backup/restore. |
| 4 | Built-in LTO | N8151-40 | 1 | A | Connected with [N8103-65]. Confirmed by backup/restore. |
(*1)
The driver software may not be loaded automatically, if the additional SCSI controllers are installed after OS installation. In this case, please load driver softwares according to the following procedure.
- How to load the driver software- How to load the driver software automatically after reboot
- Execute the following commands after booting the system:
#modprobe a100u2w
- Add "modprobe a100u2w" in the end of the file "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit".
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