IntelĀ® Server Board SE7520JR2 Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Test Overview..........................................................................................................2
1.1.1 Basic Installation Testing.........................................................................................2
1.1.2 Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing ............................................2
1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria .............................................................................................3
2. Base System Definitions .....................................................................................................5
3. Supported Operating Systems............................................................................................6
3.1 Operating System Certifications ..............................................................................8
4. Adapters and Peripherals....................................................................................................9
4.1 PCI SCSI RAID......................................................................................................11
4.2 PCI SATA RAID.....................................................................................................11
4.3 PCI SCSI ...............................................................................................................13
4.4 PCI SAS.................................................................................................................13
4.5 PCI MROMB..........................................................................................................14
4.6 PCI Fiber Channel .................................................................................................14
4.7 PCI InfiniBand........................................................................................................15
4.8 PCI NIC..................................................................................................................15
4.9 Modems.................................................................................................................16
4.10 Keyboard/Mouse....................................................................................................17
4.11 CDROM Drives......................................................................................................17
4.12 DVD Drives............................................................................................................18
4.13 Tape Drives ...........................................................................................................18
4.14 Removable Drives .................................................................................................19
4.15 KVM.......................................................................................................................19
4.16 Video Adapters ......................................................................................................19
5. Hard Disk Drives.................................................................................................................21
6. Installation Guidelines & Test Notes................................................................................27
6.1 SuSE 9.1 Professional Kernel version 2.6.4-52-smp data integrity issue..............27
6.2 LSI add-in RAID card Option ROM utility access issue.........................................27
6.3 Sony Tape Drives Test Notes................................................................................27