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Chapter 2: Installation

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Fan1

8-pin
PWR

FP Control

SPK

PW LED

IDE1

Floppy

SATA1

SATA0

USB2/3

SMB

Battery

North Bridge

ATX Main
PWR

JPG1

SCSI
CTRLR

CPU1

CPU2

South
Bridge

PXH-V

DIMM 1A (Bank 1)

JAR1

SMBus
PWR

Fan2

Compact

Flash

JCF1

JWF1

JA1

JL1

Slot6

PCI-X 133MHz

Slot7

DIMM 1B (Bank 1)

DIMM 1C (Bank 1)

DIMM 1D (Bank 1)

DIMM 2A (Bank 2)

DIMM 2B (Bank 2)

DIMM 2C (Bank 2)

DIMM 2D (Bank 2)

USB4

JCOM2

J4E3

WOL

DA1

DIMM 3B (Bank 3)

DIMM 3C (Bank 3)

DIMM 3D (Bank 3)

DIMM 3A (Bank 3)

DIMM 4A (Bank 4)

DIMM 4B (Bank 4)

DIMM 4C (Bank 4)

DIMM 4D (Bank 4)

USB0/1

COM1

GLAN2

GLAN1

PCI-Ex8

SXB-

VGA

SCSI Chann. B

SO 100MHz ZCR1

JWD

SATA3

SATA2

SATA5

SATA4

Fan5

Fan4

Fan3

JOH1

JP1

4-pin
PWR

PWR Fail

Buzzer

JPWF

UID-

Switch

Bank4

Bank3

Bank2

Bank1

JPCIE3

SE8C

PCI-Ex8

SXB-

JPA3

JPA2

JPA1

LVD/SE

U320

SIMSO

WOR

JPL2

JPL1

Channel A

U320 LVD/SE

JUID1

JBT1

GLAN
CTRLR

VGA
CTRLR

BIOS

S/IO

UID-
Switch

DA2

GLAN LEDs

There are two GLAN ports on the moth-

erboard. Each Gigabit Ethernet LAN port

has two LEDs. The green LED indicates

activity, while the other LED may be

green, amber or off to indicate the speed

of the connection. See the tables at right

for more information.

2-7 Onboard

Indicators

A. GLAN Port1 LEDs

B. GLAN Port2 LEDs

A c t i v i t y

LED

GLAN Activity Indicator

LED Color Deﬁ nition

Off

No Activity or 10 Mbps

Blinking

Active

GLAN Link (Speed) Indicator

LED Color Deﬁ nition

Off

No Connection or 10 Mbps

Green

100 Mbps

Amber

1 Gbps

L i n k

LED

Summary of Contents for X7DBR-8 Plus

Page 1: ...SUPER X7DBR 8 X7DBR i USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0b ...

Page 2: ... COMPUTER 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 SOFTWARE OR DATA Any disputes arising between manufacturer and customer shall be governed by the laws of Santa Clara County in the State of California USA The State of California County of Santa Clara shal...

Page 3: ... enterprise server environments This product is intended to be professionally installed Manual Organization Chapter 1 describes the features speciﬁcations and performance of the mainboard and provides detailed information about the chipset Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions Read this chapter when installing the processor memory modules and other hardware components into the syst...

Page 4: ...m AC Power Loss 1 10 1 4 PC Health Monitoring 1 10 1 5 ACPI Features 1 11 1 6 Power Supply 1 12 1 7 Super I O 1 12 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 Precautions 2 1 Unpacking 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heatsink Installation 2 2 2 3 Installing DIMMs 2 6 2 4 Control Panel Connectors and IO Ports 2 8 A Back Panel Connectors IO Ports 2 8 B Front Control Panel 2 9 C Front Control Panel...

Page 5: ...Connector 2 21 SMB Power Connector 2 22 VGA Connector 2 22 Compact Flash Card PWR Connector 2 23 Unit Identiﬁcation Switches 2 23 2 6 Jumper Settings 2 24 Explanation of Jumpers 2 24 GLAN Enable Disable 2 24 Clear CMOS 2 25 Watch Dog 2 25 SCSI Controller Enabled Disabled 2 26 SCSI Termination Enabled Dsiabled 2 26 3rd PWR Supply PWR Fault 2 27 VGA Enable Disable 2 27 I2C Bus to PCI Slots 2 28 Comp...

Page 6: ... 2 3 3 Frequently Asked Questions 3 3 3 4 Returning Merchandise for Service 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 24 4 6 Boot Setup 4 25 4 7 Exit 4 26 Appendices Appendix A BIOS POST Messages A 1 Appendix B BIOS POST Codes B 1 Appendix C Intel HostRAID Setup Guidelines C 1 Appendix D Adaptec HostRAID Setup ...

Page 7: ... the highest standards in quality and performance Check that the following items have all been included with your motherboard If anything listed here is damaged or missing contact your retailer All are included in the Retail Box One 1 Supermicro Mainboard One 1 ribbon cable for IDE devices CBL 036L 02 One 1 ﬂoppy ribbon cable CBL 022 One 1 Supermicro CD containing drivers and utilities One 1 User ...

Page 8: ...ess Super 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 Support rma supermicro nl Customer Support Asia Paciﬁc Address Super Micro Taiwan 4F No 232 1 Liancheng Road Chung Ho 235 Taipei Hsien Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 8226 3990 Fax 886 2 8226 3991 Web S...

Page 9: ... i Image Note The drawings and pictures shown in this manual were based on the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing of the manual The motherboard you ve received may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in the manual ...

Page 10: ...XH V DIMM 1A Bank 1 JAR1 J17 SMBus PWR JPW1 JPW3 Fan2 JD1 JIDE1 JIDE2 Compact Flash JCF1 JWF1 J22 JA1 JL1 Slot6 PCI X 133MHz Slot7 J7B1 J7B2 J1 J31 J7B3 J8B1 J2 J32 DIMM 1B Bank 1 DIMM 1C Bank 1 DIMM 1D Bank 1 DIMM 2A Bank 2 DIMM 2B Bank 2 DIMM 2C Bank 2 DIMM 2D Bank 2 J7 USB4 JWOR1 JCOM2 J4E3 JUSB3 WOL JWOL1 DA1 J8B3 J3 J33 DIMM 3B Bank 3 DIMM 3C Bank 3 DIMM 3D Bank 3 DIMM 3A Bank 3 DIMM 4A Bank ...

Page 11: ...tivity LED Indicators See Chapt 2 DIMM 1A DIMM 4D Memory DDR2 Fully Buffered FBD Slots FAN 1 5 Fans 1 5 CPU Fans Chassis Fans Floppy J22 Floppy Disk Drive Connector FP CTRL JF1 Front Control Panel Connector GLAN 1 2 JLAN1 2 G bit Ethernet Ports IDE1 IDE2 Note IDE1 Hard Drive JIDE1 Compact Flash Card JIDE2 OH LED JOH1 Overheat LED JAR1 Alarm Reset Enable JPWF Power Supply Failure Connector See Chap...

Page 12: ... ROM DMI 2 3 PCI 2 2 ACPI 1 0 2 0 Plug and Play PnP SMBIOS 2 3 and USB Keyboard support PC Health Monitoring Onboard voltage monitors for CPU cores chipset voltage 1 8V 3 3V 5V 12V 12V 3 3V Standby 5V standby and VBAT Fan status monitor with ﬁrmware control CPU chassis temperature monitors Low noise fan speed control Environmental temperature monitor and control Platform Environment Control Interf...

Page 13: ... Ultra DMA 100 bus master interface One IDE w Compact Flash Card supported One ﬂoppy port interface Two COM ports 1 header 1 port Up to ﬁve USB 2 0 Universal Serial Bus 2 ports 3 Headers ATI ES1000 16MB Graphic Controller Super I O Winbond W83627HG w Hardware Monitor support W83793G Other Internal external modem ring on Wake on LAN WOL Wake on Ring WOR Console redirection Onboard Fan Speed Control...

Page 14: ...IE X4 GILGAL Gb LAN FWH RJ45 RJ45 LPC COM2 COM1 SIO W83627 FDD USB 0 1 2 3 4 HW MONITOR W83793G SIMSO CONN SYSTEM POWER IDE CONN ATA 100 KB MS FRONT PANEL PORT PORT PORT PORT PORT PORT PORT PORT 0 3 4 5 6 7 4 3 1 2 0 VGA CONN USB 2 0 3 0 Gb S VRM ISL6307 VRM ISL6307 PROCESSOR 1 1067 1333 MT S 1067 1333 MT S HG PORT 2 PCIE X4 PCI E_X4_SLOT_L JPCIE1 PCI EXP X8 PCIX 133 PCI X 133 J12 PCI EXP X8 PCI E...

Page 15: ...ss two independent front side bus interfaces Each front side bus uses a 64 bit wide 1333 MHz data bus that transfers data at 10 7 GB sec The MCH chipset connects up to 16 Fully Buffered DIMM modules providing up to 64 GB of DDR2 FBD ECC memory The MCH chipset also provides three x8 PCI Express and one x4 ESI interface to the ESB2 In addition the 5000P chipset offers a wide range of RAS features in...

Page 16: ...The PC health monitor can check the RPM status of the cooling fans The onboard CPU and chassis fans are controlled by Thermal Management via BIOS under Hardware Monitoring in the Advanced Setting Environmental Temperature Control The thermal control sensor monitors the CPU temperature in real time and will turn on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a user deﬁned threshold...

Page 17: ...resses any key the CPU will wake up and the LED will automatically stop blinking and remain on Main Switch Override Mechanism When an ATX power supply is used the power button can function as a system suspend button to make the system enter a SoftOff state The monitor will be suspended and the hard drive will spin down Pressing the power button again will cause the whole system to wake up During t...

Page 18: ...circuitry decode logic data rate selection a clock genera tor drive interface control logic and interrupt and DMA logic The wide range of functions integrated onto the Super I O greatly reduces the number of components required for interfacing with ﬂoppy disk drives The Super I O supports 360 K 720 K 1 2 M 1 44 M or 2 88 M disk drives and data transfer rates of 250 Kb s 500 Kb s or 1 Mb s It also ...

Page 19: ...o 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 antistatic bags when not in use For grounding purposes make sure your computer chassis provides excellent conductivity between the power supply the case the mounting fasteners and the motherboard Use only the correc...

Page 20: ...ou install the processor into the CPU socket before you install the CPU heatsink 2 Intel s boxed Xeon CPU package contains the CPU fan and heatsink assembly If you buy a CPU separately make sure that you use only Intel certiﬁed multi di rectional heatsink and fan 3 Make sure to install the motherboard into the chassis before you install the CPU heatsink and fan 4 When purchasing an LGA 771 CPU or ...

Page 21: ...the socket Do not move the CPU hori zontally or vertically Do not rub the CPU against the surface or against any pins of the socket to avoid dam age to the CPU or the socket 7 With the CPU inside the socket inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that the CPU is prop erly installed 8 Use your thumb to gently push the socket clip down to the clip lock 9 If the CPU is properly installed int...

Page 22: ...e retention mechanism 3 Screw in two diagonal screws ie the 1 and the 2 screws until just snug do not fully tighten the screws to avoid pos sible damage to the CPU 4 Finish the installation by fully tightening all four screws CEK Heatsink Installation Screw 2 Warning We do not recommend that the CPU or the heatsink be removed However if you do need to uninstall the heatsink please follow the instr...

Page 23: ...precautionary measures to prevent damage done to these components when you install the motherboard to the chassis 1 Unscrew and remove the heatsink screws from the motherboard in the sequence as show in the picture on the right 2 Hold the heatsink as show in the pic ture on the right and gently wiggle the heatsink to loosen it from the CPU Do not use excessive force when wiggling the heatsink 3 On...

Page 24: ...IMM modules with pairs of memory modules of the same size and same type will result in Interleaved Memory which will increase memory performance Note 1 Due to OS limitations some operating systems may not show more than 4 GB of memory Optimized DIMM Population Configurations Branch 0 Branch 1 Number of DIMMs Bank 1 Channel 0 Bank 2 Channel 1 Bank 3 Channel 2 Bank 4 Channel 3 2 DIMMs 1A 2A 4 DIMMs ...

Page 25: ...ional use will be reduced when 4 GB of RAM is used The reduction in memory availability is disproportional Refer to the Memory Availability Table below for details Possible System Memory Allocation Availability System Device Size Physical Memory Remaining Available 4 GB Total System Memory Firmware Hub ﬂash memory System BIOS 1 MB 3 99 Local APIC 4 KB 3 99 Area Reserved for the chipset 2 MB 3 99 I...

Page 26: ...w for the colors and locations of the various I O ports A Back Panel Connectors IO Ports Figure 2 3 Back Panel I O Port Locations and Deﬁnitions Back Panel Connectors 1 Keyboard Purple 2 PS 2 Mouse Green 3 Back Panel USB Port 0 4 Back Panel USB Port 1 5 COM Port 1 Turquoise 6 Gigabit LAN 1 7 Gigabit LAN 2 8 VGA Port Blue 9 SCSI Channel B See Section 2 5 for details 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...

Page 27: ...iﬁ cally for use with Supermicro server chassis See Figure 2 4 for the descriptions of the various control panel buttons and LED indicators Refer to the following section for descriptions and pin deﬁnitions Figure 2 4 JF1 Header Pins Power 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 PWR Fail LED NIC2 LED SU...

Page 28: ...SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power 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 PWR Fail LED...

Page 29: ...1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power 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 PWR Fail LED NIC2 LED NIC1 NIC2 LED Indicators The NIC Network Interface Control ler LED connection for GLAN port1 is located on pins 11 and 12 o...

Page 30: ...4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power 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 PWR Fail LED NIC2 LED Overheat Fan Fail LED OH Connect an LED to the OH Fan Fail connect...

Page 31: ... SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power 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 PWR Fail LED NIC2 LED Power Button The Power Button connection is located on pins 1 and 2 of JF1 Momentarily contacting both pins will power on off the system...

Page 32: ... Cables ATX Power Connector There are a 24 pin main power supply connector JPW1 and an 8 pin CPU PWR connector JPW3 on the moth erboard These power connectors meet the SSI EPS 12V speciﬁcation The 4 pin 12V PWR supply is required to provide adequate power to the sys tem See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions for connector JPW1 For the 8 pin PWR JPW3 please refer to the item listed below Pro...

Page 33: ...SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Universal Serial Bus USB There are ﬁve USB 2 0 Universal Serial Bus ports headers on the motherboard Two of them are Back Panel USB ports USB 0 1 JUSB1 and the other are Front Panel USB headers USB 2 3 JUSB2 USB 4 JUSB3 See the tables on the right for pin d...

Page 34: ...Bank 4 KB MS USB0 1 COM1 GLAN2 GLAN1 JI2 C2 JI2 C1 PCI Ex8 SXB VGA SCSI Chann B SO 100MHz ZCR1 JWD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Fan Headers The X7DBR 8 X7DBR i has f...

Page 35: ...uzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 ATX PS 2 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Ports The ATX PS 2 keyboard and the PS 2 mouse ports are located at JKM and JMS See the table on the right for pin deﬁnitions The mouse port is above the keyboard port See...

Page 36: ...H1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Wake On Ring The Wake On Ring header is desig nated JWOR This function allows your computer to receive and be woken up by an incoming call to the modem when the system is in sus...

Page 37: ...SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power LED Speaker On the JD1 header pins 1 3 are for a power LED and pins 4 7 are for the speaker See the table on the right for speaker pin d...

Page 38: ... LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power Fault PWR Supply Failure Connect a cable from your power supply to the Power Failure header JPWF to provide warnings of power supply failure This warning signal is passed through the PWR_LED pin to indicate of a power failure on the chassis See the table on the right for pin deﬁnit...

Page 39: ...WD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 SMB A System Management Bus header is located at J18 Connect the ap propriate cable here to utilize SMB on your system Overheat LED F...

Page 40: ... MS USB0 1 COM1 GLAN2 GLAN1 JI2 C2 JI2 C1 PCI Ex8 SXB VGA SCSI Chann B SO 100MHz ZCR1 JWD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 Power SMB I2 C Connector Power SMB I2 C Connec...

Page 41: ... JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 A A Compact Flash PWR Connector B Front Panel UID Switch JUID1 C Back Panel UID Switch JUID2 Compact Flash Card PWR Connector A Compact Flash Card Power Connector is located at JWFR For the Compact Flash Card or the Compact Flash Jumper JCF1 to work properly you will need to connect a power cable to JWFR ﬁrst Refe...

Page 42: ... Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 2 6 Jumper Settings Explanation of Jumpers To modify the operation of the motherboard jumpers can be used to choose between optional settings Jumpers create shorts between two pins to change the function of the connector Pin 1 is identiﬁ...

Page 43: ...ID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 CMOS Clear JBT1 is used to clear CMOS Instead of pins this jumper consists of contact pads to prevent the accidental clearing of CMOS To clear CMOS use a metal object such as a small screwdriver to touch both pads at the same time to short the connection Always remove the AC power cord from the system before clear ing CMOS Note For an ATX powe...

Page 44: ... JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 A A SCSI Enable B SCSI Channel A Termi nation Enable C SCSI Channel B Termi nation Enable SCSI Controller Enable Disable Jumper JPA1 is used to enable or dis able the Adaptec SCSI controller The default setting is on pins 1 2 to enable SCSI See the table on the right for jumper sett...

Page 45: ...h Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 VGA Enable Disable Jumper Settings Both Jumpers Deﬁnition Pins 1 2 Enabled Pins 2 3 Disabled 3rd PWR Supply PWR Fault Detect J3P The system can notify you in the event of a power supply failure This feature available when th...

Page 46: ... Bank 3 DIMM 4A Bank 4 DIMM 4B Bank 4 DIMM 4C Bank 4 DIMM 4D Bank 4 KB MS USB0 1 COM1 GLAN2 GLAN1 JI2 C2 JI2 C1 PCI Ex8 SXB VGA SCSI Chann B SO 100MHz ZCR1 JWD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR B...

Page 47: ...0MHz ZCR1 JWD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 GLAN LEDs There are two GLAN ports on the moth erboard Each Gigabit Ethernet LAN port has two LEDs The green LED indicates...

Page 48: ... Bank 4 DIMM 4B Bank 4 DIMM 4C Bank 4 DIMM 4D Bank 4 KB MS USB0 1 COM1 GLAN2 GLAN1 JI2 C2 JI2 C1 PCI Ex8 SXB VGA SCSI Chann B SO 100MHz ZCR1 JWD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Sw...

Page 49: ...nnects to drive A and the connector that does not have twisted wires always connects to drive B Floppy Connector The ﬂoppy connector is located at J22 See the table below for pin deﬁnitions Floppy Drive Connector Pin Deﬁnitions Floppy Pin Deﬁnition Pin Deﬁnition 1 Ground 2 FDHDIN 3 Ground 4 Reserved 5 Key 6 FDEDIN 7 Ground 8 Index 9 Ground 10 Motor Enable 11 Ground 12 Drive Select B 13 Ground 14 D...

Page 50: ...IMM 4B Bank 4 DIMM 4C Bank 4 DIMM 4D Bank 4 KB MS USB0 1 COM1 GLAN2 GLAN1 JI2 C2 JI2 C1 PCI Ex8 SXB VGA SCSI Chann B SO 100MHz ZCR1 JWD SATA3 SATA2 SATA5 SATA4 Fan5 Fan4 Fan3 JOH1 JP1 4 pin PWR PWR Fail Buzzer JPWF UID Switch Bank4 Bank3 Bank2 Bank1 JPCIE3 SE8C PCI Ex8 SXB JPA3 JPA2 JPA1 LVD SE U320 SIMSO WOR JPL2 JPL1 Channel A U320 LVD SE JUID1 JBT1 GLAN CTRLR VGA CTRLR BIOS S IO UID Switch DA2 ...

Page 51: ...on 1 Reset IDE 2 Ground 3 Host Data 7 4 Host Data 8 5 Host Data 6 6 Host Data 9 7 Host Data 5 8 Host Data 10 9 Host Data 4 10 Host Data 11 11 Host Data 3 12 Host Data 12 13 Host Data 2 14 Host Data 13 15 Host Data 1 16 Host Data 14 17 Host Data 0 18 Host Data 15 19 Ground 20 Key 21 DRQ3 22 Ground 23 I O Write 24 Ground 25 I O Read 26 Ground 27 IOCHRDY 28 BALE 29 DACK3 30 Ground 31 IRQ14 32 IOCS16 ...

Page 52: ... J28 Pin Deﬁnition Pin Deﬁnition 1 DB 12 35 DB 12 2 DB 13 36 DB 13 3 DB 14 37 DB 14 4 DB 15 38 DB 15 5 DB P1 39 DB P1 6 DB 0 40 DB 0 7 DB 1 41 DB 1 8 DB 2 42 DB 2 9 DB 3 43 DB 3 10 DB 4 44 DB 4 11 DB 5 45 DB 5 12 DB 6 46 DB 6 13 DB 7 47 DB 7 14 DB P 48 DB P 15 Ground 49 Ground 16 DIFFSENS 50 Ground 17 TERMPWR 51 TERMPWR 18 TERMPWR 52 TERMPWR 19 Reserved 53 Reserved 20 Ground 54 Ground 21 ATN 55 AT...

Page 53: ...umper settings as well 5 Use only the correct type of CMOS onboard battery as recommended by the Manufacturer Do not install the onboard battery upside down to avoid pos sible explosion No Power 1 Make sure that there are no short circuits between the motherboard and chas sis 2 Verify that all jumpers are set to their default positions 3 Check that the 115V 230V switch on the power supply is prope...

Page 54: ...turer 4 Check for bad DIMM modules or slots by swapping a single module between four slots and noting the results 5 Make sure all memory modules are fully seated in their slots To install memory modules begin with Branch 1 then Branch 2 and so on see Page 2 6 3 2 Technical Support Procedures Before contacting Technical Support please take the following steps Also note that as a motherboard manufac...

Page 55: ... not mix memory modules of different speeds and sizes Question How do I update my BIOS Answer It is recommended that you do not upgrade your BIOS if you are expe riencing no problems with your system Updated BIOS ﬁles are located on our web site at http www supermicro com support bios Please check our BIOS warning message and the info on how to update your BIOS on our web site Also check the curre...

Page 56: ... to the manufacturer the RMA number should be prominently displayed on the outside of the shipping carton and mailed prepaid or hand carried Shipping and handling charges will be applied for all orders that must be mailed when service is complete This warranty only covers normal consumer use and does not cover damages in curred in shipping or from failure due to the alternation misuse abuse or imp...

Page 57: ...battery pro vides power to the CMOS Logic enabling it to retain system parameters Each time the computer is powered on the computer is conﬁgured with the values stored in the CMOS Logic by the system BIOS which gains control at boot up How To Change the Conﬁguration Data The CMOS information that determines the system parameters may be changed by entering the BIOS Setup utility This Setup utility ...

Page 58: ...ssing Delete immediately after turning the system on or 2 When the message shown below appears brieﬂy at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test press the Delete key to activate the main Setup menu Press the Delete key to enter Setup 4 3 Main BIOS Setup ʳ All main Setup options are described in this section The main BIOS Setup screen is displayed below Use the Up Down arrow key...

Page 59: ...ate Using the arrow keys highlight the month day and year ﬁelds and enter the correct data Press the Enter key to save the data BIOS Date This ﬁeld displays the date when this version of BIOS was built Legacy Diskette A This setting allows the user to set the type of ﬂoppy disk drive installed as diskette A The options are Disabled 360Kb 5 25 in 1 2MB 5 25 in 720Kb 3 5 in 1 44 1 25MB 3 5 in and 2 ...

Page 60: ... sub menu are Type Selects the type of IDE hard drive The options are Auto which allows the BIOS to automatically determine the hard drive s capacity number of heads etc a number from 1 39 to select a predetermined type of hard drive CDROM and ATAPI Removable The option User will allow the user to enter the parameters of the HDD installed at this connection The option Auto will allow the BIOS to a...

Page 61: ...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 LBA Mode Control This item determines whether the Phoenix BIOS will access the IDE Channel 0 Master Device via the LBA mode The options are Enabled and Disabled 32 Bit I O This option allows the user to en...

Page 62: ...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 Enable Select Enable to enable Serial ATA RAID Functions For the Windows OS environment use the RAID driver if this feature is set to Enabled When this item is set to Enabled the item ICH RAID Code Base will be available for you to select either Intel or Ada...

Page 63: ...ry 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 the following display The items with a triangle beside them have sub menus that can be accessed by highlighting the item and pressing Enter ...

Page 64: ... Power Interface power management on your system The options are Yes and No Power Button Behavior If set to Instant 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 options are instant off and 4 sec override Resume On Modem Ring Select On to wake your syst...

Page 65: ...e buffer and written into the system memory at the same time Select Write Protect to prevent data from being written into the base memory area of Block 0 512K Select Write Back to allow CPU to write data back directly from the buffer without writing data to the System Memory for fast CPU data processing and operation The options are Uncached Write Through Write Protect and Write Back Cache Base 51...

Page 66: ...Enabled and Disabled PCI Conﬁguration Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings for PCI devices Onboard GLAN1 Onboard GLAN2 Gigabit LAN OPROM Conﬁgure Enabling this option provides the capability to boot from GLAN The options are Disabled and Enabled Onboard SCSI OPROM Conﬁgure Enabling this option provides the capitally to boot from SCSI HDD The options are Disabled and Enabled...

Page 67: ... software you might want to change this setting and try again A different OS requires a different Bus Master clock rate Large Disk Access Mode This setting determines how large hard drives are to be accessed The options are DOS or Other for Unix Novelle NetWare and other operating systems Advanced Chipset Control Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings Warning Take Caution whe...

Page 68: ... Technology will greatly enhance the performance of TOE devices if enabled Note A TOE device is a specialized dedicated processor that is installed on an add on card or a network card to handle some or all packet processing of this add on card For this motherboard the TOE device is built inside the ESB 2 South Bridge chip The options are Enabled and Disabled Route Port 80h Cycles to This feature a...

Page 69: ...ent 2 Available when supported by the CPU Set to Enabled to use Thermal Management 2 TM2 which will lower CPU voltage and frequency when the CPU temperature reaches a predeﬁned overheat threshold Set to Disabled to use Thermal Manager 1 TM1 allowing CPU clocking to be regulated via CPU Internal Clock modulation when the CPU temperature reaches the overheat threshold C1 Enhanced Mode Available when...

Page 70: ...llow one platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions creating multiple virtual systems in one physical computer The options are Enabled and Disabled Note If there is any change to this setting you will need to power off and restart the system for the change to take effect Please refer to Intel s web site for detailed information Intel EIST Support Availabl...

Page 71: ... options are Normal and IR for an infrared device Base I O Address This setting allows you to select the base I O address for serial port B The options are 3F8 2F8 3E8 and 2E8 Interrupt This setting allows you to select the IRQ interrupt request for serial port B The options are IRQ3 and IRQ4 Floppy Disk Controller This setting allows you to assign control of the ﬂoppy disk controller The options ...

Page 72: ...log capacity It is not a setting View DMI Event Log Highlight this item and press Enter to view the contents of the event log Event Logging This setting allows you to Enable or Disable event logging ECC Event Logging This setting allows you to Enable or Disable ECC event logging Mark DMI Events as Read Highlight this item and press Enter to mark the DMI events as read Clear All DMI Event Logs Sele...

Page 73: ...0 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 Control This item allows you to select the ﬂow control option for console redirection The options are None XON XOFF and CTS RTS Console Connection This item allows you to decide how console redirection is to be...

Page 74: ... Temperature CPU1 Second Core Temperature CPU2 Temperature CPU2 Second Core Temperature System Temperature Fan1 Fan5 Speeds If the feature of Auto Fan Control is enabled the BIOS will automatically display the status of the fans indicated in this item Fan Speed Control Modes This feature allows the user to decide how the system controls the speeds of the onboard fans The CPU temperature and the fa...

Page 75: ... the BIOS will automatically display the status of the fans indicated in this item Fan Speed Control Modes This feature allows the user to decide how the system controls the speeds of the onboard fans The CPU temperature and the fan speed are correlative When the CPU on die temperature increases the fan speed will also increase and vice versa This option is to 3 pin fan to allow the fan speed to b...

Page 76: ...Agent 4 Temperature System Temperature Fan1 Fan5 Speeds If the feature of Auto Fan Control is enabled the BIOS will automatically display the status of the fans indicated in this item Fan Speed Control Modes This feature allows the user to decide how the system controls the speeds of the onboard fans The CPU temperature and the fan speed are correlative When the CPU on die temperature increases th...

Page 77: ...face 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 Disabled Existing Event Log Number This item displays the number of the existing event log Event Log Control System Firmware Progress Enabling this function to log POST progress The options are Enabled and...

Page 78: ...this option 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 Off and Power Cycles System Event Log System Event Log List Mode These options display the System Event SEL Log and System Event SEL Log in List Mode Items include SEL System Event Log Entry Nu...

Page 79: ...Chapter 4 BIOS 4 23 Realtime Sensor Data This feature display information from motherboard sensors such as temperatures fan speeds and voltages of various components ...

Page 80: ...sor password has been entered for the system User Password Is This displays whether a user password has been entered for the system Clear means such a password has not been used and Set means a user password has been entered for the system Set Supervisor Password When the item Set Supervisor Password is highlighted hit the Enter key When prompted type the Supervisor s password in the dialogue box ...

Page 81: ...able devices listed in the sequence of boot order as speciﬁed The boot functions for the devices included in the candidate list above are currently disabled Use a key or a key to move the device up or down Use the f key or the r key to specify the type of an USB device either ﬁxed or removable You can select one item from the boot list and hit the x key to remove it from the list of bootable devic...

Page 82: ...y Exit 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 default settings for all items in the BIOS Setup These are the safest settings to use Discard Changes Highlight this item and hit Enter to discard cancel any changes you ve made You will remain in t...

Page 83: ...led 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 correctly identiﬁed in Setup Shadow Ram Failed at offset nnnn Shadow RAM failed at offset nnnn of the 64k block at which the error was detected System RAM Failed at offset nnnn System RAM failed at o...

Page 84: ...ious 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 with control of wait states improper Setup settings can also terminate POST and cause this error on the next boot Run Setup and verify that the waitstate conﬁguration is correct This error is cle...

Page 85: ...s Software NMI Failed 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 Conﬂict Address conﬂict for speciﬁed device Allocation Error for device Run ISA or EISA Conﬁguration Utility to resolve resource conﬂict for the speciﬁed device CD ROM Drive CD ROM Drive identiﬁed Entering S...

Page 86: ...lly tested nnnn kB System RAM Passed Where nnnn is the amount of system RAM in kilobytes successfully tested 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 stor age devices Operating system not found Operating system cannot be located on either drive A or drive C Enter Setup and see if ﬁxed ...

Page 87: ...rd Write down and follow the information shown on the screen Press F2 to enter Setup Optional message displayed during POST Can be turned off in Setup PS 2 Mouse PS 2 mouse identiﬁed Run the I2O Conﬁguration Utility One or more unclaimed block storage devices have the Conﬁguration Request bit set in the LCT Run an I2O Conﬁguration Utility e g the SAC utility System BIOS shadowed System BIOS copied...

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Page 89: ... 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 Mode 03h Disable Non Maskable Interrupt NMI 04h Get CPU type 06h Initialize system hardware 07h Disable shadow and execute code from the ROM 08h Initialize chipset with initial POST values 09h Set IN PO...

Page 90: ... 38h Shadow system BIOS ROM 3Ah Auto size cache 3Ch Advanced conﬁguration of chipset registers 3Dh Load alternate registers with CMOS values 41h Initialize extended memory for RomPilot optional 42h Initialize interrupt vectors 45h POST device initialization 46h 2 1 2 3 Check ROM copyright notice 48h Check video conﬁguration against CMOS 49h Initialize PCI bus and devices 4Ah Initialize all video a...

Page 91: ... and IRQs optional 81h Late POST device initialization 82h Detect and install external RS232 ports 83h Conﬁgure non MCD IDE controllers 84h Detect and install external parallel ports 85h Initialize PC compatible PnP ISA devices 86h Re initialize onboard I O ports 87h Conﬁgure Motherboard Conﬁgurable Devices optional 88h Initialize BIOS Data Area 89h Enable Non Maskable Interrupts NMIs 8Ah Initiali...

Page 92: ...ne prepare 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 SMBIOS BCh Clear parity checkers BDh Display MultiBoot menu BEh Clear screen optional BFh Check virus and backup reminders C0h Try to boot with INT 19 C1h Initialize POST Error Manager PEM C2h I...

Page 93: ...ory type 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 F4h Output one beep F5h Clear Huge Segment F6h Boot to Mini DOS F7h Boot to Full DOS If the BIOS detects error 2C 2E or 30 base 512K RAM error it displays an addi tional word bitmap xxxx indicat...

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Page 95: ... your motherboard Note that the current version of the ESB2 SATA RAID Utility can only support Windows XP 2000 2003 Operating Systems Serial ATA SATA Serial ATA SATA is a physical storage interface that uses a single cable with a minimum of four wires to create a point to point connection between devices It is a serial link which supports transfer rates up to 3 0 Gbps Because the serial cables use...

Page 96: ... RAID Functions Native Mode 1 Press the Del key during system bootup to enter the BIOS Setup Utility Note If it is the ﬁrst time powering on the system we recommend you load the Optimized Default Settings If you have already done so please skip to Step 3 2 Use the arrow keys to select the Exit Settings Once in the Exit settings Scroll down to select Load Optimized Default Settings and press the En...

Page 97: ... 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 shots shown in the manual are for refer ence only The screen shots shown in the manual do not imply Supernicro s endorsement or non endorsement on any 3rd party s product Your screens may or many not look ...

Page 98: ...and press Space to select it A triangle appears to conﬁrm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the stripe size ranged from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 0 array and hit Enter Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a higher stripe size The default stripe size is 128 KB g Press Enter when the Create Volume item is highlighted...

Page 99: ...o 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 volume capacity and hit Enter The default setting is the maximum capacity allowed e Press Enter when the Create Volume item is highlighted A warning message displays f When asked Are you sure you want to cr...

Page 100: ...wn Arrow keys to select the stripe size from 4 KB to 128 KB for your RAID 10 and hit Enter The default setting is 64 KB Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a higher stripe size e When the RAID Volume Capacity item is highlighted enter your RAID volume capacity and hit Enter The default setting is the maximum capacity allowed f Press Enter when the Creat...

Page 101: ...ght a drive and press Space to select it A triangle appears to conﬁrm the selection of the drive f Use the Up Arrow Down Arrow keys to select the stripe size ranged from 4 KB to 128 KB for the RAID 5 array and hit Enter Note For a server please use a lower stripe size and for a multimedia system use a higher stripe size The default stripe size is 128 KB g Enter your desired RAID volume capacity an...

Page 102: ...ives when 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 message displays c When asked Are you sure you want to delete this volume Y N press Y to delete the RAID volume or type N to go back to the Delete Volume menu ...

Page 103: ...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 Exit and press Enter A warning message will appear b Press Y to reset the drive or type N to go back to the main menu Warning Be cautious when you reset a RAID volume HDD to non RAID or Resetting a RAID H...

Page 104: ...and press the Enter key e Choose the Intel R ESB2 SATA RAID Controller 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 installed do it at this time Once all devices are speciﬁed press the Enter key to continue with the installation g From the Windows XP 20...

Page 105: ...d 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 better functionality than Parallel ATA Introduction to the Intel ESB2 I O Controller Hub Located in the South Bridge of the Intel 5000P Chipset the ESB2 I O Controller Hub provides the I O subsystem with access to the...

Page 106: ...ter key to 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 RAID Enabled and press Enter Then select En abled 6 Scroll down to ICH RAID Codebase and select Adaptec Then press Enter For ICH RAID Codebase Change the setting from Intel to Adaptec 7 Scroll ...

Page 107: ...pplications Using the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility ARC The Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility an embedded BIOS Utility includes the following Array Conﬁguration Utility Use this utility to create conﬁgure and manage ar rays Disk Utilities Use this option to format or verify disks To run the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility you will need to do the following 1 Enable RAID functions in the syste...

Page 108: ... User s Manual Managing Arrays Select this option to view array properties and conﬁgure array settings To select this option using the arrow keys and the enter key select Managing Arrays from the main menu as shown above ...

Page 109: ...disk 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 conﬁgure a disk that is part of a boot array To determine which disks are associated with a particular array please refer to Viewing Array Properties To conﬁgure a disk drive 1 From the main menu shown on Page D 4 select Conﬁgure Drives and hit Enter as shown below...

Page 110: ...ves you want to conﬁgure 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 conﬁgure appear in the selected drives box 4 Once both drives display in the selected drive box press Enter ...

Page 111: ...pendix 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 conﬁgure If correct type Y to continue ...

Page 112: ... is recommended that you conﬁgure 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 screen shown below Note To de select any disk highlight the disk and press Delete 3 The arrays you have selected will appear on the Selected Drives dialog box on the right as shown below 4 Press...

Page 113: ...e 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 Note If you select Migrate for RAID 0 or Build for RAID 1 you will be asked to select the source drive The contents of the source drive will be preserved However the data on the new drive will be lo...

Page 114: ... sizes in a RAID However you can only select a smaller drive as the source or ﬁrst drive during a build operation 5 When migrating from single volume to RAID 0 migrating from a larger drive to a smaller drive is allowed However the destination drive must be at least half the capacity of the source drive 6 It is not recommended that you migrate or build an array on Windows dynamic disks volumes bec...

Page 115: ...ed 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 Arrays select the bootable array you want to delete and press Ctrl and B Note a bootable array is the array marked with an asterisk as shown in the picture above 3 When the following message is displaye...

Page 116: ... and press Insert and then press Enter 5 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 Hotspare 1 From the main menu shown on Page D 4 select Add Delete Hotspares 2 Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight and select the Hotspare you want to delete and press delete and then pres...

Page 117: ... 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 below showing detailed in formation on the array The physical disks associated with the array are displayed here 3 Press Esc to return to the previous menu ...

Page 118: ... Rebuild 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 before you can rebuild an array To Rebuild an array 1 From the Main Menu select Manage Arrays as shown in the screen below From the List of Arrays select the array you want to Rebuild 2 Press Ctrl a...

Page 119: ... 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 delete the array Yes No RAID 1 only the following prompt is also displayed Deleting the partition will result in data loss Do you also want to delete the parti tion Yes No 4 Press Yes to delete the arr...

Page 120: ...to format or verify the media of your Serial ATA hard disks To access the disk utilities 1 From the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility Menu select Disk Utilities as shown above and press Enter The following screen appears 2 Select the desired disk and press Enter The following screen appears ...

Page 121: ...d 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 it appears in the screen as shown below To continue with disk formatting select Yes and hit Enter Otherwise select No and press Enter Caution Formatting a disk destroys all data on the drive Be sure t...

Page 122: ...hen the 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 me dia defects Select Yes and hit Enter to proceed with disk verifying otherwise select No and hit Enter ...

Page 123: ...daptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines D 19 To Exit Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility 1 Once you have completed RAID array conﬁgurations press ESC to exit The following screen will appear 2 Press Yes to exit the Utility ...

Page 124: ... 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 driver diskette Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA Raid Controller Driver into Drive A and press the Enter key j Choose The Adaptec Embedded Host Serial ATA Raid Controller from the list indicated in the Windows ...

Page 125: ...system 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 Installing Drivers other than the Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA RAID Controller Driver After you ve installed the Windows Operating System a screen as shown below will appear You are ready to install softw...

Page 126: ...III displays 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 are ADMIN Note 2 In the Windows OS environment the Supero Doctor III settings take pre cedence over the BIOS settings When ﬁrst installed Supero Doctor III adopts the temperature threshold sett...

Page 127: ...II Remote Control Note SD III Software Revision 1 0 can be downloaded from our Web site at ftp ftp supermicro com utility Supero_Doctor_III You can also download SDIII User s Guide at http www supermicro com PRODUCT Manuals SDIII UserGuide pdf For Linux we will still recommend that you use Supero Doctor II ...

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