Intel SE7500CW2 - EATX DUAL Xeon Socket 603 E7500 Motherboard Hardware Manual
Intel® Server Board
SE7500CW2
Tested Hardware and Operating
System List
Revision 1.50
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Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing
Revision History Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2
Revision History
Revision
Date
May 2002 1.0 Initial Draft
August 2002 1.1 Revised to incorporate additional adapters from updated PVL Test Report,
October 2002 1.2
January 2003 1.3 Added updated information on Driver information. Red Hat 8.0 testing
April, 2003 1.4 Updated BIOS versions, removed Promise* 100 TX2 card for the
July, 2003 1.5 Added support for Microsoft Windows 2003, and testing on BIOS 1.28
Number Modifications
added Turbolinux* Server 7.0, and Red Hat* Linux 7.3 as supported
Operating Systems.
Fixed details on the “Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X” and the “IBM
IC35L040AVER07 Ericson Deskstar GXP60” for hard-drives.
results added and Red Hat 8.0 is now a supported Operating System.
Updated to new format.
supported list of cards.
available on PBA A86787-509 and above.
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Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2 Disclaimers
Disclaimers
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Table of Contents Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2
Table of Contents
1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................1
1.1 Test Overview.....................................................................................................................1
1.1.1 Compatibility Testing.....................................................................................................1
1.1.2 Stress Testing...............................................................................................................2
1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria........................................................................................................2
2. Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2 Base System Configurations .......................................3
3. Supported Operating Systems..............................................................................................4
3.1 Operating System Certifications ........................................................................................5
4. Adapters and Peripherals......................................................................................................6
5. Hard Disk Drives...................................................................................................................15
6. Installation Guidelines.........................................................................................................17
6.1 SE7500CW2 system won’t boot to DOS with an Adaptec* card installed......................17
6.2 Windows 2000* won’t install on a Maxtor D540X -4G 137GIG ATA hard-drive.................17
6.3 Adaptec 2100S, 2110S, or 3410S, RAID cards cause LILO to hang during POST with
Red Hat 7.3.................................................................................................................................18
6.4 Intel SRCU42L BIOS and firmware levels........................................................................18
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Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2 Introduction
1. Introduction
This document is intended to provide users of the Intel® server board SE7500CW2 with a guide
to the different operating systems, adapter cards, and peripherals tested by Intel on this platform.
This document will continue to be updated as new add-in cards, peripherals, and operating
systems are tested or until the Intel server board SE7500CW2 is no longer in production. Each
new release of the document will present updated information as well as continue to provide the
information from previous releases.
Intel will only provide support to those add-in cards and peripherals under the specified system
configuration (System BIOS) and operating systems and versions to which they were tested.
1.1 Test Overview
Testing performed on the Intel server board SE7500CW2 is classified under two separate
categories: Compatibility Testing and Stress Testing.
1.1.1 Compatibility Testing
Basic compatibility testing is performed with each supported operating system. Basic
compatibility testing validates the server board can be used to install the operating system and
that the base hardware feature set is functional. A small set of peripherals is used for installation
purposes only. No add-in cards are tested. Testing may include network connectivity and
running of proprietary and industry standard test suites.
Extended compatibility testing will occur on only the latest versions of a supported operating
system. Extended compatibility testing will test for functionality of a variety of add-in adapters
and peripherals. Test applications used will consist of both proprietary as well as industry
standard test suites.
The latest version of an operating system signifies the latest supported version
/
at the time of the actual test run. Each new release of this document may have
a newly supported release of a given operating system. Previous releases of a
supported operating system may not be tested beyond the basic compatibility
test process.
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1.1.2 Stress Testing
Stress testing is performed only on the most current release of a supported operating system at
the time of a given validation run. The stress test process consists of three areas: Base
platform, Multiple Adapter, and Endurance.
Base Platform: Each base platform will successfully install a given operating system,
successfully run a disk stress test, and successfully run a network stress test.
Multiple Adapters : Multiple adapter validation (MAV) testing uses configurations and test suites
to gain an accurate view of how the server performs under varying complex configurations while
interacting with network clients. Each configuration is tested for at least 12 hours.
Endurance Test: This test sequence uses configurations that include 2-5 add-in adapters
(depending on chassis used) for a minimum 72-hour test run without injecting errors. Three
servers operating under Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, Novell NetWare*, and Caldera
OpenUnix* are tested in parallel. Each configuration passes an installation test, a Network/Disk
Stress test, and tape backup test. Any fatal errors that occur will require a complete test restart.
1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria
For each operating system, adapter, and peripheral configuration, a test passes if specific
criteria are met. Specific configurations may have had particular characteristics that were
addressed on a case -by-case basis. In general, a configuration passes testing if the following
conditions are met:
• The operating system installed without error.
- Manufacturer’s installation instructions or Intel’s best-known methods were used for
the operating system installation.
- No extraordinary workarounds were required during the operating system installation.
- The server system behaved as expected during and after the operating system
installation.
- Application software installed and executed normally.
• Hardware compatibility tests ran to completion without error.
• Test software suites executed successfully
- Test and data files were created in the correct directories without error.
- Files copied from client to server and back compare to the original with zero errors
reported.
- Clients remain connected to the server system.
- Industry standard test suites run to completion with zero errors reported.
All SE7500CW2 testing was performed using the SC5200 server chassis, base option. No
specific testing with add-in cards has occurred with the Hot-swap-backplane(HSBP) for SCSI
hard-drives in tact.
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2. Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2 Base System
Configurations
The following table lists the base configurations tested. Base configurations will change as new
revisions of the Intel® server board SE7500CW2 are released and/or new system BIOS and
BMC firmware are cut onto the board in the factory. Each base configuration is assigned an
identifier number that is referenced in the tables throughout this document. New base
configurations are added with each new release of this document.
Base System
Identifier #
1 SE7500CW2 A88031-503 Ver 1.10
2
3 SE7500CW2 A88031-504 Ver 1.12
4
5 SE7500CW2 A88031-505 Ver 1.14
6
7 SE7500CW2 A88031-506 Ver 1.17
8
7 SE7500CW2 A88031-507 Ver 1.23
Board Type Part Number BIOS Revision Notes
SE7500CW2S
CSI
SE7500CW2S
CSI
SE7500CW2S
CSI
SE7500CW2S
CSI
A88030-502 Ver 1.10
A88030-503 Ver 1.12
A88030-504 Ver 1.14
A88030-505 Ver 1.17
8
9 SE7500CW2 A88031-509 Ver 1.25
10
11 SE7500CW2 A88031-509 Ver 1.28
12
SE7500CW2S
CSI
SE7500CW2S
CSI
SE7500CW2S
CSI
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A88030-506 Ver 1.23
A88030-508 Ver 1.25
A88030-508 Ver 1.28
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