NEC Express5800-ES1200 Release Notes

System Release Notes

Server ES 1200 System Release Notes

These System Release Notes pr o vid e t he lates t av ailable r elease infor mat io n.

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Introduction

General

These System Release Notes cover the following topics:

General

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Advisories

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Documen tation Errata.

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The following general comments apply:

Versions of the Network Operating Systems tested

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and reco mmended are:

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3

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Intra NetWare 4.11 Support P ack 4

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SCO Open Server 5.04.

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The current BIOS is:

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Version 1.00.01.AC E07

If your server has SCSI hard drives connected to

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the on-boar d 7880 SCSI contr oller, yo u cannot bo ot the server from the IDE CD-ROM if the CD is a floppy image bootable CD.

The system does not support controller cards

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incorporating a PCI bridge chip which does not confor m to the specific ation for PCI v ersion 2.1. For example, th e SMC8434BT Ether Power

™

Dual

channe l LAN adapter board.

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Note:

If you received system diskettes with your server , these d iskettes prov ide the latest available system utilities inf ormation. Use th ese diskettes instead of running the system utilities from the E

XPRESSBUILDER

CD-ROM.

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Advisories

BIOS Setup Utility

This section contains advisories on the BIOS Setup Utility, Resourc e Configuration Utility (RCU), NetWare, and SCO .

The following advisories apply when using the BIOS Setup Utility:

If you change an IDE device (i.e., CD-ROM) from a

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slave to a master de vice, th e BIOS devic e auto detect leaves th e previou s master device options ( i.e., Multi-Sector Transfers, LBA Mode Control, 32 BIT I/O. and Transfer Mode ) set for the CD-ROM. When this oc curs, en ter Setup and manually ch ange these options to the defaults outlined in the ES1200 User’s Guide.

Pressing F2 to enter Se tup after th e “Press <F2> to

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enter SETUP” message during boot time is only active while the system BIOS is loading, not while the adapter BIO S (i.e., Adapte c or Myle x) is loading.

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Setup identif ies the IDE tape dr ive as a CD-RO M.

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To determine the IDE channel connection for the IDE tape, see the ES1200 User’s Guide.

If you have disk drives less than 8 GB and

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previou sly formatted in Ex tended CHS yo u must select the “En abled (CHS)” setting under th e IDE Adapter paramete r “LBA Mode Con trol”. All new drives should use LBA Mode Control “Enabled”.

The following changes (highlighted) apply to the

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BIOS Setup Configuration settings shown in Table 4-5 of the ES1200 User’s Guide (101924).

Table 4-5. BIOS Setup Configurations

MENU PARAMETER NAME NORMAL

SETTING OR

CONFIGURATION

DISPLAY ONLY

MAIN MENU

System Time

Enter current time (hour, minutes, seconds on 24 hour clock).

System Date

Enter current date.

Language

Indicates the language used in this bios.

Diskette A:

Use +/- to change values; indicates the type of diskette drive installed.

Diskette B:

Use +/- to change values; indicates the type of diskette drive installed.

IDE Adapter 0 Master

Press ENTER for menu. Autotype Fixed Disk Press Enter

Type Cylinders Heads Sectors/Track Write Precomp

Multi-Sector Transfers 16 Sectors LBA Mode Control Enabled 32 BIT I/O Enabled Transfer Mode Fast PIO 4

IDE Adapter 0 Slave

Press ENTER for menu. Autotype Fixed Disk Press Enter

Type Cylinders Heads Sectors/Track Write Precomp

Multi-Sector Transfers Disabled LBA Mode Control Disabled 32 BIT I/O Enabled

This parameter will be overwritten by the RCU setting.

This p arameter sh ou ld be en abled for HDD a n d disa b led for ot h e r IDE devices.

In this parameter the “Enabled (CHS)” setting must be selected for disk drives less than 8 GB and

previously formatted in Extended CHS.

This parameter should be “Fast PIO 4” for hard disk drives and ‘Standard” for other IDE devices.

Current Time

Current Date

English

1.44MB, 3 1/2”

Not Installed

None

Current IDE HDD Auto or User

2, 3

None

Current IDE CD-ROM

YOUR

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