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About This Supplement
AlphaServer 1000/1000A Supplement vii
About This Supplement
Purpose
This supplement updates portions of your AlphaServer 1000 or AlphaServer 1000A
Owner's Guide. Be sure to consult both your Owner’s Guide and your Owner’s
Guide Supplement. Information in this document supersedes the information in
your Owner’s Guide.
Audience
The information in this supplement is intended for users, system managers, and
others who perform system management tasks. If you will be administering,
operating, configuring, or adding options to your AlphaServer system, you will
need to refer to the information in this book.
Users of Windows NT
For users of the Windows NT operating system, many of the tasks of managing and
configuring your server are performed via the AlphaBIOS interface
.
Information in
this supplement on the AlphaBIOS firmware interface replaces the information on
the ARC firmware interface in your Owner’s Guide. To perform diagnostics using
the test command, you need to switch to the SRM console. Consult Chapter 1 of
this supplement and refer to the Owner’s Guide for more information on the SRM
console.
Users of OpenVMS and Digital UNIX
Generally, the SRM console supports systems that run the Digital UNIX and
OpenVMS operating systems, and this supplement should be used in conjunction
with the material on the SRM console in the Owner’s Guide. The AlphaBIOS
interface must be used to run a configuration utility such as the EISA configuration
utility (ECU). For information on running such a utility, see Chapter 4 of this
supplement.