NEC Express5800-320La Release Notes

System Release Notes

Express5800/320La

System Release Notes

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Express5800/320La

System Release Notes

The Express5800/320La 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 at the time of its release.

Please read these notes in their entirety.

CONTENTS

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................3

Operating System ...................................................................................................................................3

Advisories...............................................................................................................................................3

EXPRESSBUILDER .........................................................................................................................3

BIOS and SCSI ID Settings ...............................................................................................................3

TCP/IP Protocol Settings for Windows 2000.....................................................................................4

Disk Failure Prediction (S.M.A.R.T).................................................................................................4

SCSI Controller Errors.......................................................................................................................4

Configuring the APC SNMP Management Card for Windows 2000.................................................5

System Hardware............................................................................................................................... 6

Documentation Errata.............................................................................................................................7

Express5800/ft Series EXPRESSBUILDER User’s Guide................................................................7

Express5800/320La/320La-R User’s Guide..................................................................................... 13

Express5800/320La/320La-R Service Guide...................................................................................15

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Introduction

These System Release Notes cover the following topics:

! Operating System
! Advisories
! Documentation Errata

Operating System

Your server supports Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server with
Service Pack 3 and above and also Ft Linux. No other operating systems are
supported at this time.

Advisories

This section contains advisories on EXPRESSBUILDER, BIOS, SCSI ID
settings, TCP/IP protocol settings, disk failure prediction, SCSI controller errors
and system hardware.

EXPRESSBUILDER

The following advisory applies to EXPRESSBUILDER.

! Install Windows 2000 Operating System using the Ft Server Setup function

on EXPRESSBUILDER. Do not attempt to install the operating system
manually.

BIOS and SCSI ID Settings

The following advisories apply to BIOS and SCSI ID settings.

! Before you install Windows 2000 Operating system, run BIOS Setup and set

Boot Monitoring to DISABLE. After the operating system is completely
installed, run BIOS Setup again and set Boot Monitoring to ENABLE. Refer
to your user’s guide for information on running BIOS Setup.

! The SCSI ID of the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) on SCSI bus 1 is set to ID 6 at

the factory. If the SCSI BIOS defaults are loaded, the SCSI ID of the Host
Bus Adapter (HBA) on SCSI bus 1 must be reset to 6. In addition, ensure
greater than 4Gbyte addressing is enabled to allow disk sizes larger than
4GB on both controllers. Updated procedures for enabling greater than
4Gbyte addressing are provided in these System Release Notes.

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TCP/IP Protocol Settings for Windows 2000

If you have computers that communicate with the NEC EXPRESS5800/ft server
using TCP/IP protocols, you must make several settings to your ft server to
allow communications without interruptions. These setting changes must also be
made in all clients connected to the EXPRESS5800/ft server via the network.

Note: If Windows 2000 Advanced Server is preloaded

on your system, you do not need to perform this procedure
on your ft server. However, this procedure should be
performed on all computers connected to your ft server.

1. Power up the server and its peripherals.

2. Insert the EXPRESSBUILDER CD disk in the CD-ROM drive. Immediately

press and hold down the Shift key to prevent auto start.

3. In Windows Explorer or My Computer, locate the CD-ROM drive (labeled

2001 ag) containing the EXPRESSBUILDER CD disk.

! Locate the WinNT folder and double click on it.
! Double click on W2K.
! In the W2K folder, find and copy Ftreg.exe into an arbitrary directory

on your hard drive.

4. Activate the command prompt, enter the directory containing the above file

copy, and then execute the following command:

FTREG.EXE

Executing FTREG.EXE makes changes to your system registry to avoid a
timeout during initial communications between the NEC EXPRESS5800/ft
server and computers on the network using TCP/IP protocols.

Disk Failure Prediction (S.M.A.R.T)

Disk failure prediction S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology) is not supported. When running the ft Server Utility, do not enable
“Disk Failure Prediction (S.M.A.R.T.).”

SCSI Controller Errors

During a tape backup, the Event Log may record an erroneous sraql180 SCSI
controller error. The error description is “the driver detected a controller error
on \Device\SCSI\sraq1801. If the detailed data includes word “f0030015,”
ignore this error as the tape backup is functioning normally.

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