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PDSMi+

User's

Manual

PCI 32 Bit/33 MHz

UPER PDSMi+

Pentium Dual

Core CPU

LGA 775

KB/MS

COM1

GLAN1

Intel 3000

North Bridge

LAN

CTRL

J P L 1

Fan4

Buzzer

JLED

24-Pin ATX PWR

ICH7R

South Bridge

Fan6/CPU Fan

8-pin PWR

Battery

J 9

FP CTRL

USB 1/2

VGA

GLAN2

LAN

CTRL

S I/O

COM2

J P L 2

Printer

Floppy

Slot1

SXB -E1 PCI-Ex8

DIMM 2B

PCI-X 133 MHz

BIOS

PXH-V

IPMI

IDE

IDE (Primary)

JWOR

LE1

JBT1

USB3/4 USB5/6

JWF1

JPG1

JPF

J W D

WOL

Fan3

Fan2

DIMM 1B

DIMM 2A

DIMM 1A

DIMM 1

DIMM 2

DIMM 3

DIMM 4

Fan1

VGA

CTRL

Slot6

L E 3

L E 4

SATA0

SATA1

SATA2

SATA3

(*Compact Flash Card only)

J L 1

JP3

J I

C 1

J I

C 2

Fan5

PW3

JPR1

ATX PS/2 Keyboard and
PS/2 Mouse Ports

The ATX PS/2 keyboard and PS/2

mouse are located next to the Back

Panel USB ports on the motherboard.

See the table at right for pin deﬁ ni-

tions. (Note: NC=No connection.)

PS/2 Keyboard and

Mouse Port Pin

Deﬁ nitions

Pin# Deﬁ nition

Data

Ground

VCC

Clock

Speaker Connector

The speaker connector, located at

J9, allows you to choose using the

internal or external speaker. For the

internal speaker, short pins 3 and 4.

To use an external speaker, place the

speaker cable header on all four pins.

See the table on the right.

Speaker Connector (J9)

Pin Setting Deﬁ nition

Pins 3-4

Internal Speaker

Pins 1-4

External Speaker

A. KB/Mouse

B. Speaker Connector

Summary of Contents for PDSMi Plus

Page 1: ...PDSMi USER S MANUAL Revision 1 1a...

Page 2: ...OMPUTER SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE PRODUCT INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING REPLACING INTEGRATING INSTALLING OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE SOFTWAR...

Page 3: ...features speci cations and performance of the PDSMi mainboard and provides detailed information about the chipset Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions Read this chapter when installin...

Page 4: ...1 3 PC Health Monitoring 1 10 1 4 Power Con guration Settings 1 10 1 5 ACPI Features 1 11 1 6 Power Supply 1 11 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heatsink Inst...

Page 5: ...r 2 21 2 7 Jumper Settings 2 22 Explanation of Jumpers 2 22 GLAN Enable Disable 2 22 CMOS Clear 2 23 SMBus to PCI PCI Exp Slots 2 23 Watch Dog Enable 2 24 VGA Enable 2 24 Power Force On Enable Disable...

Page 6: ...ce 3 4 Chapter 4 BIOS 4 1 Introduction 4 1 4 2 Running Setup 4 2 4 3 Main BIOS Setup 4 2 4 4 Advanced Setup 4 7 4 5 Security Setup 4 19 4 6 Boot Setup 4 20 4 7 Exit 4 21 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POS...

Page 7: ...ck that the following items have all been included with your motherboard If anything listed here is damaged or missing contact your retailer The following items are included in the retail box One 1 Su...

Page 8: ...per Micro Computer B V Het Sterrenbeeld 28 5215 ML s Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 0 73 6400390 Fax 31 0 73 6416525 Email sales supermicro nl General Information support supermicro nl Technical...

Page 9: ...Important Note to the User All images and layouts shown in this manual were based upon the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing The motherboard you ve received may or may not look e...

Page 10: ...ard J3 the blue slot will be available for one device only if not J3 can be used for multiple devices For JP3 to work properly you need to connect the Compact Flash Card PWR Cable to JWF1 rst Figure 1...

Page 11: ...ol JF1 Front Panel Control Header Note 2 Floppy Connector J27 Floppy Disk Connector IDE Primary J3 IDE Primary Slot Blue Note 1 IDE Compact Flash J4 Compact Flash Card White Note 1 IPMI IPMI 2 0 Socke...

Page 12: ...disable the HT feature in the BIOS Enable the HT feature in the BIOS under Advanced Setting before install ing a supported OS Note visit www Intel com for CPU support and driver updates OS Licensing...

Page 13: ...O 1 ATA 100 EIDE Channel Intel ICH7R SATA Controller 4 connectors for 4 devices with support of RAID functions 0 1 5 and 10 1 oppy port interface up to 2 88 MB 1 Fast UART 16550 compatible serial port...

Page 14: ...Intel 3000 ES1000 LGA775_PROCESSOR ICH 7R USB PORT_0 5 FWH LPC I O MS KB FDD SER 1 SER 2 PRN PRI_IDE VRM 11 0 ADDR CTRL CTRL ADDR DATA DATA UDMA 100 PCI_32_BUS DDR2_667 533 400 VRM V10 1 DMI ATI S ATA...

Page 15: ...e ef ciently It also provides the bandwidth needed for the system to maintain its peak performance The Direct Media Interface DMI provides the connection between the MCH and the ICH7R The ICH7R suppor...

Page 16: ...allows the user to de ne an overheat temperature When this temperature reaches the threshold the CPU thermal trip feature will be activated and it will send a signal to the Speaker LED and at the sam...

Page 17: ...Network Interface Card NIC that has WOL capability In addition an onboard LAN controller can also support WOL without any connection to the WOL header The 3 pin WOL header is to be used with a LAN ad...

Page 18: ...rail is strongly recom mended The PDSMi accommodates ATX power supplies It is strongly recommended that you use a high quality power supply that meets ATX power supply Speci cation 2 02 or above You s...

Page 19: ...its edges only do not touch its components peripheral chips memory modules or gold contacts When handling chips or modules avoid touching their pins Put the motherboard and peripherals back into their...

Page 20: ...l the CPU heatsink 2 Intel s boxed Pentium 4 CPU package contains the CPU fan and heatsink as sembly If you buy a CPU separately make sure that you use only Intel certi ed multi directional heatsink a...

Page 21: ...d carefully lower the CPU straight down to the socket Do not drop the CPU on the socket Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically Do not rub the CPU against the surface or against any pins of the...

Page 22: ...if the protective lm is not removed from the heatsink 5 Apply the proper amount of thermal grease on the CPU Note if your heatsink came with a thermal pad please ignore this step 6 If necessary rearr...

Page 23: ...take all necessary precautionary measures to prevent damage done to these components when installing the motherboard into the chassis 8 Repeat Step 6 to insert all four heatsink fasteners into the mo...

Page 24: ...than the single channel non interleaved memory When ECC memory is used it may take 25 40 seconds for the VGA to display Notes 1 Due to chipset limitation 8GB Memory can only be supported by the follo...

Page 25: ...lot Possible System Memory Allocation Availability System Device Size Physical Memory Remaining Available 4 GB Total System Memory Firmware Hub ash memory System BIOS 1 MB 3 99 Local APIC 4 KB 3 99 Ar...

Page 26: ...Button OH Fan Fail LED 1 NIC1 LED Reset Button 2 HDD LED Power LED Reset PWR Vcc Vcc Vcc Vcc Ground Ground 19 20 Vcc X Ground NMI X Vcc X NIC2 LED Figure 2 4 JF1 Header Pins Figure 2 3 I O Port Locati...

Page 27: ...NMI Button Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 19 Control 20 Ground A B A NMI B PWR LED C Front Control Panel Pin De nitions PCI 32 Bit 33 MHz S UPER PDSMi Pentium Dual Core CPU LGA 775 KB MS COM1 GLAN1...

Page 28: ...rt1 is located on pins 11 and 12 of JF1 and for the GLAN port2 is located on pins 9 and 10 of JF1 Attach the NIC LED cables to display network activity Refer to the tables on the right for pin de niti...

Page 29: ...n pins 3 and 4 of JF1 Attach it to the hardware reset switch on the computer case Refer to the table on the right for pin de nitions Reset Button Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 3 Reset 4 Ground A B...

Page 30: ...o the table on the right for pin de nitions Power Button Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 1 Signal 2 3V Standby A A PWR Button B COM1 C COM2 PCI 32 Bit 33 MHz S UPER PDSMi Pentium Dual Core CPU LGA 77...

Page 31: ...the SSI Superset ATX speci cation You can only use a 24 pin power supply cable on the motherboard Make sure that the orientation of the connector is correct You must also use the 8 pin JPW2 processor...

Page 32: ...SATA0 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 Compact Flash Card only JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 Chassis Intrusion A Chassis Intrusion header is located at JL1 Attach the appropriate cable to inform you of a c...

Page 33: ...C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 Universal Serial Bus USB There are two Universal Serial Bus ports USB 1 2 are located at J15 on the I O back panel Additional four USB ports USB 3 4 USB 5 6 lo cated are at J45 and...

Page 34: ...ash Card only JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 ATX PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Ports The ATX PS 2 keyboard and PS 2 mouse are located next to the Back Panel USB ports on the motherboard See th...

Page 35: ...Header Pin De nitions Fan1 5 Pin De nition 1 Ground Black 2 12V Red 3 Tachometer 4 PWM_Control Fan Headers The PDSMi has six fan connectors Fan1 to Fan6 Fan6 is designated as the CPU Cooling Fan Note...

Page 36: ...J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 Wake On Ring The Wake On Ring header JWOR is located close to the ICH7 South Bridge This function allows your computer to be awakened by an incoming call to the mo...

Page 37: ...JWF1 JPG1 JPF JWD W O L Fan3 Fan2 DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 1A DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 Fan1 VGA CTRL Slot6 L E 3 L E 4 SATA0 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 Compact Flash Card only JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W...

Page 38: ...ect a cable from your power supply to the Power Fail PSF header PW3 to provide a warning of power supply failure This warning signal is passed through the PWR_LED pin to indicate of a power failure on...

Page 39: ...JPF JWD W O L Fan3 Fan2 DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 1A DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 Fan1 VGA CTRL Slot6 L E 3 L E 4 SATA0 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 Compact Flash Card only JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 A A...

Page 40: ...erboard See the table on the right for jumper settings The default setting is enabled GLAN 1 2 Enable Jumper Settings Jumper Setting De nition 1 2 Enabled 2 3 Disabled A B A GLAN1 Enable B GLAN2 Enabl...

Page 41: ...to clear CMOS Instead of pins this jumper consists of contact pads to prevent accidental clearing of CMOS To clear CMOS use a metal object such as a small screwdriver to touch both pads at the same t...

Page 42: ...JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 Watch Dog Enable JWD controls Watch Dog a system monitor that takes actions when a software application hangs Close Pins 1 2 allows WD to reset the system if a...

Page 43: ...lows you to enable or disable the function of Power Force On If enabled the power will always stay on automatically If this function is disabled the normal setting the user needs to press the power bu...

Page 44: ...SATA2 SATA3 Compact Flash Card only JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 GLAN LEDs There are two GLAN ports on the mother board Each Gigabit Ethernet LAN port has two LEDs The yellow LED indicates...

Page 45: ...ties during system bootup Refer to the table on the right for details Also see the layout below for the LED locations POST LED Indicators LE3 LE4 LE3 LE4 Green Yellow POST On On Memory Initial Blinkin...

Page 46: ...e oppy disk drive cable has seven twisted wires A red mark on a wire typically designates the location of pin 1 A single oppy disk drive ribbon cable has two connectors to provide for two oppy disk dr...

Page 47: ...eserved for Compact Flash Card use only See the table on the right pin de nitions Note J4 the white slot is reserved for Compact Flash Card only Do not use it for other devices If J4 is popu lated wit...

Page 48: ...2 DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM 1A DIMM 1 DIMM 2 DIMM 3 DIMM 4 Fan1 VGA CTRL Slot6 L E 3 L E 4 SATA0 SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 Compact Flash Card only JL1 J P 3 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 Fan5 P W 3 JPR1 Parallel Printer Port Conn...

Page 49: ...all a CPU and heatsink making sure that it is fully seated and then con nect the chassis speaker and the power LED to the motherboard Check all jumper settings as well 7 Make sure to use the correct t...

Page 50: ...1 6 for details on recommended power supplies 2 The battery on your motherboard may be old Check to verify that it still supplies 3VDC If it does not replace it with a new one 3 If the above steps do...

Page 51: ...to 8 GB of unbuffered ECC Non ECC DDR2 677 533 400 two way interleaved or non interleaved SDRAM See Section 2 4 for details on installing memory Question How do I update my BIOS It is recommended tha...

Page 52: ...rvice A receipt or copy of your invoice marked with the date of purchase is required be fore any warranty service will be rendered You can obtain service by calling your vendor for a Returned Merchand...

Page 53: ...f a backup battery pro vides power to the CMOS Logic enabling it to retain system parameters When the computer is powered on the computer is con gured with the values stored in the CMOS Logic by the s...

Page 54: ...immediately after turning the system on or 2 When the message shown below appears brie y at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test press the Delete key to activate the main Setup...

Page 55: ...ate Using the arrow keys highlight the month day and year elds and enter the correct data Press the Enter key to save the data BIOS Date This eld displays the date when this version of BIOS was built...

Page 56: ...ed by the Windows 2000 OS or a later version When the SATA Controller Mode is set to Enhanced the following items will display Serial ATA SATA RAID Select Enable to enable Serial ATA RAID Functions Fo...

Page 57: ...se items Set the correct con gurations accordingly The items included in the sub menu are Type This option allows the user to select the type of IDE hard drive The option Auto will allow the BIOS to a...

Page 58: ...BA Format Multi Sector Transfers This item allows the user to specify the number of sectors per block to be used in multi sector transfer The options are Disabled 4 Sectors 8 Sectors and 16 Sectors LB...

Page 59: ...y This display informs you how much extended memory is recognized as being present in the system 4 4 Advanced Setup ChooseAdvancedfromthe PhoenixBIOSSetupUtilitymainmenuwiththearrowkeys You should see...

Page 60: ...t Off the system will power off immediately as soon as the user hits the power button If set to 4 sec the system will power off when the user presses the power button for 4 seconds or longer The optio...

Page 61: ...r devices Cache Base 0 512K 512K to be cached written into a buffer a storage area in Static DROM SDROM or to be written into L1 L2 cache inside the CPU to speed up CPU operations Select Uncached to d...

Page 62: ...ge Registers are con gured as distinct separate units and cannot be overlapped If enabled the user can achieve better graphic effects when using a Linux graphic driver that requires the write combinin...

Page 63: ...perating systems Advanced Chipset Control Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings Warning Take caution when changing the Advanced settings An incorrect setting a very high DRAM fr...

Page 64: ...able when supported by the CPU Set to Enabled to use the Hyper Threading Technology which will result in increased CPU performance The options are Disabled and Enabled Machine Checking Available when...

Page 65: ...er off and restart the system for the change to take effect Please refer to Intel s web site for detailed information No Execute Mode Memory Protection Available when supported by the CPU and the OS S...

Page 66: ...and IRQ4 Serial Port B This setting allows you to assign control of serial port B The options are Enabled user de ned Disabled Auto BIOS controlled and OS Controlled Mode This setting allows you to se...

Page 67: ...e base I O address for the Floppy port The options are Primary and Secondary DMI Event Logging Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings Event Log Validity This is a display to info...

Page 68: ...00 1200 2400 9600 19 2K 38 4K 57 6K and 115 2K Console Type This item allows you to set console redirection type The options are VT100 VT100 8bit PC ANSI 7bit PC ANSI VT100 VT UTF8 and ASCII Flow Cont...

Page 69: ...by Pulse Width Modulation PWM Select 3 pin if your chassis came with 3 pin fan headers Select 4 pin if your chas sis came with 4 pin fan headers Select Workstation if your system is used as a Workstat...

Page 70: ...erface The options are Enabled and Disabled Clear System Event Logging Enabling this function to force the BIOS to clear the system event logs during the next cold boot The options are Enabled and Dis...

Page 71: ...on when OS Boot Watch Dog is set to Disabled Time Out Option This feature allows the user to determine what action to take in an event of a system boot failure The options are No Action Reset Power Of...

Page 72: ...4 20 PDSMi User s Manual Realtime Sensor Data This feature display information from motherboard sensors such as temperatures fan speeds and voltages of various components...

Page 73: ...word has been entered for the system User Password Is This item indicates if a user password has been entered for the system Clear means such a password has not been used and Set means a user password...

Page 74: ...l Boot BIOS settings are described in this section Candidate List Boot List Boot Priority Order Excluded from Boot Orders The items included in the boot list section are bootable devices listed in the...

Page 75: ...Discarding Changes Highlight this item and hit Enter to exit the BIOS Setup utility without saving any changes you may have made Load Setup Defaults Highlight this item and hit Enter to load the defau...

Page 76: ...4 24 PDSMi User s Manual Notes...

Page 77: ...Keyboard controller failed test May require replacing keyboard controller Keyboard locked Unlock key switch Unlock the system to proceed Monitor type does not match CMOS Run SETUP Monitor type not co...

Page 78: ...POST did not complete successfully POST loads default values and offers to run Setup If the failure was caused by incorrect values and they are not corrected the next boot will likely fail On systems...

Page 79: ...ServerBIOS2 test error Cannot generate software NMI Non Maskable Interrupt Fail Safe Timer NMI Failed ServerBIOS2 test error Fail Safe Timer takes too long device Address Con ict Address con ict for s...

Page 80: ...ed One or more I2O Block Storage Devices were excluded from the Setup Boot Menu There was not enough room in the IPL table to display all installed I2O block storage devices Operating system not found...

Page 81: ...p Optional message displayed during POST Can be turned off in Setup PS 2 Mouse PS 2 mouse identi ed Run the I2O Con guration Utility One or more unclaimed block storage devices have the Con guration R...

Page 82: ...A 6 PDSMi User s Manual Notes...

Page 83: ...error in the top left corner of the screen The following is a list of codes that may be written to port 80h Appendix B BIOS POST Codes POST Code Description 01h IPMI Initialization 02h Verify Real Mod...

Page 84: ...hadow system BIOS ROM 3Ah Auto size cache 3Ch Advanced con guration of chipset registers 3Dh Load alternate registers with CMOS values 41h Initialize extended memory for RomPilot optional 42h Initiali...

Page 85: ...and IRQs optional 81h Late POST device initialization 82h Detect and install external RS232 ports 83h Con gure non MCD IDE controllers 84h Detect and install external parallel ports 85h Initialize PC...

Page 86: ...pare to boot operating system B4h 1 One short beep before boot B5h Terminate QuietBoot optional B6h Check password optional B7h Initialize ACPI BIOS and PPM Structures B9h Prepare Boot BAh Initialize...

Page 87: ...ype EDh Initialize Memory size EEh Shadow Boot Block EFh System memory test F0h Initialize interrupt vectors F1h Initialize Run Time Clock F2h Initialize video F3h Initialize System Management Manager...

Page 88: ...B 6 PDSMi User s Manual Notes...

Page 89: ...cluded on the Super Micro CD that came packaged with your motherboard Note that the current version of the ICH7R SATA RAID Utility can only support Windows XP 2000 2003 Operating Systems Serial ATA SA...

Page 90: ...n size without any data Con guring BIOS settings for SATA RAID Functions Native Mode 1 Press the Del key during system bootup to enter the BIOS Setup Utility Note If it is the rst time powering on the...

Page 91: ...een appears after Power On Self Test b When you see the above screen press the Ctrl and the I keys simultane ously to have the main menu of the SATA RAID Utility appear Note All graphics and screen sh...

Page 92: ...nd press Space to select it A triangle appears to con rm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to selet the stripe size from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 0 array and hit Enter N...

Page 93: ...to select the previous menu c When RAID Level item is highlighted press the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select RAID 1 Mirror and hit Enter d When the Capacity item is highlighted enter your RAID volu...

Page 94: ...ow keys to select the stripe size from 4 KB to 128 KB for your RAID 10 and hit Enter The default setting is 6 4KB Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a hig...

Page 95: ...o highlight a drive and press Space to select it A triangle appears to con rm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the stripe size from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 5...

Page 96: ...hen deleting a RAID set a From the main menu select item2 Delete RAID Volume and press Enter b Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the RAID set you want to delete and press Del A Warning messag...

Page 97: ...t the RAID set drive A Warning message displays d Press Y to reset the drive or type N to go back to the main menu Exiting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Utility a From the main menu select item4 Ex...

Page 98: ...ller from the list indicated in the XP 2000 2003 Setup Screen and press the Enter key f Press the Enter key to continue the installation process If you need to specify any additional devices to be ins...

Page 99: ...can be installed in smaller chassis than Parallel ATA In addition the cables used in PATA can only extend to 40cm long while Serial ATA cables can extend up to one meter Overall Serial ATA provides b...

Page 100: ...o load the default settings for the BIOS 3 Use the arrow keys to select the Main section in BIOS 4 Scroll down to SATA Control Mode and press the Enter key to select En hanced 5 Scroll down to SATA RA...

Page 101: ...ations Using the Adaptec RAID Con guration Utility ARC The Adaptec RAID Con guration Utility an embedded BIOS Utility includes the following Array Con guration Utility Use this utility to create con g...

Page 102: ...s Manual Managing Arrays Select this option to view array properties and con gure array settings To select this option using the arrow keys and the enter key select Managing Arrays from the main menu...

Page 103: ...isk and may make any data on the disk inaccessible If the drive is used in an array you may not be able to use the array again Do not con gure a disk that is part of a boot array To determine which di...

Page 104: ...u want to con gure and press Insert 3 The drive you ve selected will appear in the Selected Drives Dialog Box on the right as shown below Repeat the same steps until all drives that you want to con gu...

Page 105: ...endix D Adaptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 7 5 Read the warning message as shown in the screen below 6 Make sure that you have selected the correct disk drives to con gure If correct type Y to contin...

Page 106: ...commended that you con gure devices before you create arrays To create an array 1 From the main menu shown on page D 4 select Create Array 2 Select the disks for the new array and press Insert as the...

Page 107: ...the default setting 4 The item Create RAID via allows you to select between the different ways of creating methods for RAID 0 and RAID 1 The following table gives examples of when each is appropriate...

Page 108: ...s in a RAID However you can only select a smaller drive as the source or rst drive during a build operation 5 When migrating from single volume to RAID 0 migrating from a larger drive to a smaller dri...

Page 109: ...d An asterisk will appear next to the bootable array as shown in the picture below Deleting a Bootable Array To delete a bootable array 1 From the Main menu select Manage Arrays 2 From the List of Arr...

Page 110: ...ress Insert and then press Enter 3 Press Yes when the following prompt is displayed Do you want to create spare Yes No The spare you have selected will appear in the Selected drives Menu To delete a H...

Page 111: ...Arrays and hit Enter as shown on the previous page 2 From the List of Arrays dialog box shown below select the array you want to view and press Enter The Array Properties dialog box appears as shown b...

Page 112: ...ld to restore its functionality For a critical array rebuild operation the optimal drive is the source drive Note 2 If no spare array exists and a hard disk drive fails you need to create a spare befo...

Page 113: ...to delete and press delete 3 In the Array Properties dialog box select Delete and press Enter The follow ing prompt is displayed Warning Deleting the array will render array unusable Do you want to de...

Page 114: ...mat or verify the media of your Serial ATA hard disks To access the disk utilities 1 From the Adaptec RAID Con guration Utility Menu select Disk Utilities as shown above and press Enter The following...

Page 115: ...at the factory and do not need to be low level formatted again 3 When the screen shown below displays select Format Disk and press Enter The following screen appears 4 Read the warning message when i...

Page 116: ...e screen shown above displays select Verify Disk Media and press Enter 4 A message will display indicating that the selected drive will be scanned for media defects Select Yes and hit Enter to proceed...

Page 117: ...aptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 19 To Exit Adaptec RAID Con guration Utility 1 Once you have completed RAID array con gurations press ESC to exit The following screen will appear 2 Press Yes to exit...

Page 118: ...F6 key when the message Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver displays h When the Windows OS Setup screen appears press S to specify additional device s i Insert the drive...

Page 119: ...ystem before proceeding with the next item on the list The bottom icon with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD Appendix E Installing Other Software Programs and Drivers A Inst...

Page 120: ...ays crucial system information such as CPU temperature system voltages and fan status See the Figure below for a display of the Supero Doctor III interface Note 1 The default user name and password ar...

Page 121: ...Remote Control Note The SD III Software program can be downloaded from our Web site at ftp ftp supermicro com utility Supero_Doctor_III You can also download the SDIII User s Guide at http www supermi...

Page 122: ...E 4 PDSMi User s Manual Notes...

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