NEC Express5800-140Hb Release Notes

System Release Notes
Express5800/140Hb
System Release Notes
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Express5800/140Hb
System Release Notes
The Express5800/140Hb System Release Notes provide up-to-date information on your system. These notes also provide additional valuable information about your system that was not included in the user’s guide.
Please read these notes in their entirety.
CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................3
General Comments .................................................................................................................................3
Advisories...............................................................................................................................................3
EXPRESSBUILDER .........................................................................................................................3
SCO....................................................................................................................................................4
System Hardware ...............................................................................................................................4
Documentation Errata............................................................................................................................. 5
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Introduction

These System Release Notes cover the following topics:

General Comments

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Advisories

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Documentation Errata.
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General Comments
The following general comments apply to this server.
Versions of the Network Operating Systems tested and recommended are:
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Windows® 2000
Windows NT® 4.0 Server with Service Pack 6
Novell® NetWare® 5.1
SCO OpenServer™ 5.05 with Maintenance Supplement 505A.
UNIXWare® 7.1.1
Advisories
This section contains advisories on the EXPRESSBUILDER, SCO, and system hardware.

EXPRESSBUILDER

The following advisory applies to EXPRESSBUILDER.
EXPRESSBUILDER EasySetup always configures the Windows 2000
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TCP/IP Protocol IP settings to "Obtain an IP address automatically" (DHCP), regardless of the IP address setting specified in EasySetup. If static TCP/IP addressing is required, TCP/IP must be reconfigured. Refer to Windows documentation for instructions.
After installing Windows 2000, the Windows 2000 Device Manager may
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show an NEC GEM SCSI Processor Device and/or an Unknown Device under Other Devices. The Unknown Device is a reference to the baseboard management controller. Installing the ESMPRO Agent can clear both of these conditions.
If you already have an operating system installed when creating a
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maintenance partition, EXPRESSBUILDER will warn you of the existing partition. If you want to preserve the installed operating system, do not create the maintenance partition or the existing operating system will be overlaid by the maintenance partition.
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SCO
The Administrator Menu in the System Information Management segment
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of the Offline Maintenance Utility is accessible only by NEC authorized service representatives.
EXPRESSBUILDER operates in floppy emulation mode. The emulated
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floppy drive portion of your system CD-ROM is designated Drive A and the remaining portion(s) of the CD-ROM is designated Drive Q. Your system diskette drive is Drive B. After creating the Off-line Maintenance Utility diskette, EXPRESSBUILDER prompts you to remove the diskette from Drive B. At this prompt, remove the diskette from your diskette drive.
The following advisory applies when using SCO 5.05.
During the installation of SCO or any time thereafter when booting SCO a warning message may appear as follows:
WARNING: Cannot connect to APM, error 0x0036 System loaded, press <Return> to start:
To prevent the WARNING message from appearing, boot the system to single-user Mode. Edit the /etc/default/boot file. Add "apm.check=no" to the end of the line indicated by the "DEFBOOTSTR=" entry.

System Hardware

The following advisory applies to the Plug and Play feature of your server's I/O expansion boards.
The factory standard default value (Hot-Plug PCI Master Control) of the Plug N Play feature in your server is enabled. The Windows 2000 operating system requires that the Hot-Plug PCI Master Control feature be enabled. To disable it, if required by your operating system, the Hot­Plug PCI Master Control feature in the Advanced Submenu of the BIOS Setup Utility described in Chapter 3 "BIOS Setup Configuration Settings" can be changed to "disabled."
The following advisory applies to your system's documentation.
Both the User's Guide and Service Guide refer to the two SCSI channels as either channel A and channel B or as channel 0 and channel 1. The terms channel A and channel B are used when referencing the SCSI channels from the on-board SCSI controller. The terms channel 0 and channel 1 are used when referencing the SCSI channels from a RAID controller. Therefore, it should be noted that these terms are an exact counterpart of each other and can be used interchangeability.
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Documentation Errata

The following changes apply to the Express5800/140Hb User's Guide (456-01546-000) located on the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM:
Chapter 3, Configuring System Board Jumpers.
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Replace Figure 3-2 System Jumpers with the following figure.
A
Processor speed jumper block (located in the CPU cage)
B
System function jumper block
C
Dump/reset jumper block
Replace Table 3-4 Processor Speed Jumper Summary with the following table.
Table 3-4. Processor Speed Jumper Summary
Frequency
(MHz)
700 ON OFF OFF ON
800 ON OFF ON OFF
900
(Fixed Bus Ratio)
D
Battery power control/reset jumper block
E
System board
Figure 3-2. System Jumpers
Jumper SettingsProcessor
1-2 3-4 5-6 6-8
N/A N/A N/A N/A
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