Installation Guidelines
Intel® Server Board SE7501WV2
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operating system will not be complete.
Guideline:
Use the on-board Adaptec component when formatting hard drives during
installation.
Status:
Intel is currently working to determine root cause of this issue.
6.4 Samsung SP8004H Polaris 40 hard drive jumpers should be
removed for proper sizing
Issue:
On the SCSI baseboard - When set to a master/slave configuration on the ATA
controller, both the system and Windows2000 identifies the slave drive as having
32248MB of space. The drive is a Samsung SP8004H 80GB ATA-100 drive. The
master drive is identified as having 76348MB.
On the ATA baseboard - When the Samsung SP-8004h IDE hard drive is placed
on the Promise controller, as a master the drive is sized as an 80GB drive, but if
the same drive is move to the slave position with any other drive as a master,
including a like drive the drive is reported as a 32GB drive.
Implication:
Drive capacity is not identified correctly by the system.
Guideline:
Remove all jumpers, which will put the drive in slave mode with full capacity.
Status:
Root cause was determined to be an incorrect label on the drives. This will be
fixed in Samsung product documentation.
6.5 Red Hat Linux* 7.3 segmentation fault with an Intel® RAID
controller installed
Issue:
When using the normal installation of Red Hat Linux* 7.3 with the 2.4.18-3 kernel
and an Intel RAID controller installed, the following issue is seen:
1. A shutdown command results in a segmentation fault.
2. It is not possible to use some tools such as storcon.
3. Accessing the proc file system (via cat /proc/scsi/gdth/#,
where “#” stands for the controller number, also results in a
segmentation fault.
This issue occurs only when using Red Hat kernel version 2.4.18-3 installed with
SMP support, and it is not server board or RAID controller specific.
Implication:
The Red Hat Linux 7.3, 2.4.18-3 SMP kernel does not function properly with the
Intel RAID controller driver. See
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-
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