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Using This Guide
This User’s Guide provides a quick reference to information about your system.
Its goal is to familiarize you with your system and the tasks necessary for system
configuring and upgrading.
This guide contains the following information:
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Chapter 1, “ System Overview” provides an overview of your system and
describes your system’s major system components. See this chapter to
familiarize yourself with your system.
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Chapter 2, “Setting Up Your System” tells you how to select a site, unpack the
system, make cable connections, and power on your system.
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Chapter 3, “Configuring Your System” tells you how to configure the system
and provides instructions for running the BIOS Setup Utility and the Symbios
Configuration Utility, which is used to configure SCSI devices in your system.
This chapter also provides information on system board jumper settings.
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Chapter 4, “Upgrades and Options” provides you with instructions for
upgrading your system with an additional processor, optional memory, options
cards, and peripheral devices.
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Chapter 5, “Problem Solving” contains helpful information for solving problems
that might occur with your system.
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Appendix A, “System Cabling” includes cabling information for the onboard
SCSI controller, the onboard IDE controllers, and optional RAID controllers.
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Appendix B, “System Setup Utility” provides information for configuring
onboard resources and add-in boards. It also provides information on viewing
the system event log.
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Appendix C, “Emergency Management Port” provides information on a feature
that provides an interface to the Emergency Management Port (EMP) Manager.
This interface allows remote server management via a modem or direct
connection.
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“Glossary” defines the standard acronyms and technical terms used in this
manual.
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“Equipment Log” provides you with a sample equipment log for documenting
the system configuration and future updates you may make to your system.