Bull ESCALA E Series, Setting Up The System

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Setting Up the System
System Features
Base Unit
The following list summarizes the features provided by the system base unit:
Integrated Controllers
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One ULTRA SCSI single ended (SE) embedded controller
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A LAN (RJ-45) controller at 10M bits
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One video graphics adapter (SVGA) with internal power save control and 1M Byte of
video memory, upgradable to 2M Bytes
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Two RS-232 standard communication lines
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One parallel printer port
• One EIA-485 inter-cabinet communication line
• Support for an integrated modem using one ISA port.
Disk Devices
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Up to 12 x 1-Inch high or 8 x 1.6-Inch high hard disks.
Media Devices
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One floppy diskette drive
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Up to 4 media devices, such as CD-ROM, 4 mm/8 mm tape, QIC tape.
PCI/ISA Controllers
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Up to 4 PCI/ISA cards (2 PCI cards + 2 ISA cards) with the basic PCI configuration (RPE
planar)
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Up to 7 PCI/ISA cards (5 PCI cards + 2 PCI/ISA cards) with the full PCI configuration
(FPE planar).
Memory
• From 32M bytes to 256M bytes on the system planar
• From 32M bytes to 2G bytes on memory risers.
CPU’s
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Up to 2 CPU cards.
Operating System
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AIX 4.2 or higher.
Disk Expansion Unit
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Up to 2 disk expansion units can be connected to the base system base unit.
Disk Expansion Unit
Disk Devices
• Up to 12 x 1-Inch high or 8 x 1.6-Inch high hard disks.
Media Devices
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Up to 2 media devices, such as CD-ROM, 4 mm/8 mm tape, QIC tape.