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System Release Notes
Server LE2200/MT2200 S ystem 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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The following general comments apply:
Versions of the Network Operating Systems tested
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and reco mmended are:
Windows NT 4.0 Server with Servic e Pack 3
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IntraNetWare 4.11 with Supp ort Pack 2
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SCO Open Server 5.04.
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The current BIOS is:
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Advisories
Version 1.00.02.ESP11
The SCSISelect utility is part of the sy stem BIOS in
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addition to being on th e utilities diskette.
Controller cards incorporating a PCI bridge chip
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which does not conform to the specification for PCI
version 2. 1 are not su pported. Fo r example, the
SMC8434BT EtherP ower
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Dual channel LAN
adapter board .
You cannot boot the server from the IDE CD-ROM if
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the CD is a floppy image bootable CD.
This ver sion of BIOS sup ports up to 333M Hz
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processors.
This section contains advisories on the BIOS, NetWare,
Windows NT, and SCO.
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BIOS
The following advisories apply when using the system
BIOS:
When booting from the optional RAID, use the
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SCSISelect Utility to disable th e AIC-7880 BIOS as
described in the Configuring Your System chapter of
your 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 running, not while
the adapter BIO S (i.e., Adapte c or Myle x) is
running.
During the BIOS IDE device auto detect, BIOS
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Setup does no t display the attac hed slave (tape )
device, only the master (CD-ROM) is reported.
The SCSISelect utility is acce ssible as part of the
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system BIOS in addition to being on the utilities
diskette. During system boot up, the following
prompt is display ed at the time the Ad aptec AIC7860 and AIC-7880 SCSI BIOS is lo aded:
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Press CONTROL + A to start th e SCSISelect Utility
for the app ropriate SCSI BIO S.
When disabling ac cess to the SCSISelect Utility, the
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SCSISelect utility should be used in c onjunction
with the BIOS Setup u tility. Changin g the BIOS
Setup utility “Allow SCSI Select” par ameter to
Disabled prevents the u se of the SCSI Select utility,
but the “Pre ss <Ctrl-A> for SCSI Se lect” prompt is
still displayed. Chang ing the SCSISelect utility
“Display <Ctrl-A> Message During BIOS
Initialization” parame ter to Disabled pr events the
prompt from being displayed. In combination these
parameters c an be used to pr event acc ess to the
SCSISelect utility during boot.
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NetWare
Windows NT
The following advisories apply when using NetWare:
When installing NetWare v4.11, edit the
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STARTUP.NCF as follows:
Change “L OAD MPS14.P SM” to
“LOAD MPS14. PSM -A”
When installing NetWare 4.11 on server s that use 4
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GB SCSI hard d rives, yo u might ge t a message that
there is no DOS partition set to active. This
message can be ignored.
IDE tape drives are not supported.
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The following advisories apply when using Windows
NT:
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When installin g Windows NT w ith a SMC8416 LAN
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card, use the driver on the Super disk 3.0.
When using the IDE tape drive in Windows NT 4.0,
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you can not do multi-tape backup and restores.
Windows NT 3.51 r equires a set of f iles from Serv ice
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Pack 5 BEFORE th e installation can be initiated.
Windows NT 3.51 d oes not suppor t IDE tape drive s.
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SCO
The following adv isories apply when in stalling SCO
Open Server:
IDE tape backu ps and restor es can be don e as long
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as the End of Tape condition is avoided. Appends to
the tape are n ot supporte d.
When installing SCO UNIX 5.04 on a system w ith
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an optional RAID , the Adaptec 7880 c ontroller mu st
be disabled using the Resource Configuration
Utility (RCU) and the BIO S disabled using the
SCSISelect utility (both descr ibed in the
Configuring Your System chapter of your User’s
Guide). You also must use the driver on the diskette
labeled “UNIX AIC-78X X Drive r v2.1”.
When con figurin g an SMC8416 LAN car d for SCO
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UNIX, in th e “Search for Network Adapte r” screen
answer NO to the question “Do you w ish to search
for a SMC8216/ 8416 Adapter?” The n contin ue with
driver configuration.
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There is a known problem with the curr ent driver
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set when adding an SM C9332BDT to a system w ith
a SMC8432BTA, or installing them at th e same
time. The SM C8432BTA will not tran smit or
receive.
When installin g an SMC9332BDT an d a
SMC8432BTA togeth er in the same system, install
the SMC9332BDT f irst and conf igure it in th e
operating system per the SCO Configuration Guide.
Next, powe r down an d install the SMC8432BTA an d
bring the system up and configure the second card
in the operating system.
When addin g an SMC9332BDT to a system with a
SMC8432BTA already installed, yo u must first
remove th e SMC8432BTA. In stall the SMC9332BDT
and configure it in the operating system. Then reinstall the SMC8432BTA an d re-con figure it in your
operating system.
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