User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- NovaScale 4020 User's Guide
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 System Description
- 2 Board Set Description
- 3 Configuration Software and Utilities
- Utilities / Drivers on Resource CD
- Power-on Sequence and Power-on Self-Test (POST)
- Extensible Firmware Interface Boot Manager
- The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Shell
- BIOS Setup
- LSI Logic* SCSI Utility
- System Maintenance Utility
- EFI Platform Diagnostic Tests
- EFI Service Partition
- Console Redirection
- Terminal Mode
- Shutting Down the Server
- Servicing the System (basic knowledge)
- A Warning and Cautions
- B Working Inside the System
- C Hot-swapping System Components
- D Servicing the Electronics Bay
- Safety Warnings
Board Set Description 23
Video Controller
The onboard, integrated ATI RAGE XL 64-bit SVGA chip contains an SVGA controller that is
fully compatible with industry video standards. The video sub-system implements 8 MB of
10-nanosecond onboard video memory.
The video controller supports pixel resolutions of up to 1600 x 1200 and up to 16.7 million
colors and provides hardware-accelerated bit block transfers of data. The SVGA controller
supports analog VGA monitors (single and multiple frequency, interlaced and noninterlaced)
with a maximum vertical retrace noninterlaced frequency of 100 Hz.
Video connectors are located at both the front and the rear of the chassis. The connectors are
auto sensed and only one can be used at a time. The connector at the front of the chassis
supports resolutions up to 800x600.
IDE Controller
The IDE controller is contained within the Intel
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ICH4 (82801DA). The IDE controller is a
multifunction device on the I/O board that acts as a PCI-based Fast IDE controller. Although
the server system implements a single IDE channel on the front panel board, which supports a
CD/DVD drive at ATA-33 speeds, the IDE controller supports the following:
• PIO and IDE DMA/bus master operations
• Mode 4 timing
• ATA-100 (100MB/sec using ultra DMA transfers)
• Buffering for PCI/IDE burst transfers
• Master/slave IDE mode
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
The Baseboard Management Controller and its associated circuitry reside on the main board.
The BMC autonomously monitors system platform management events and logs their
occurrences in the non-volatile System Event Log (SEL). This includes events such as
over-temperature and over-voltage conditions, and fan failures. The BMC provides the
interface to the monitored information so system management software can pole and retrieve
the present status of the platform.
The BMC provides the interface to the non-volatile Sensor Data Record (SDR) Repository.
Sensor Data Records provide a set of information that system management software can use to
automatically configure itself for the number and type of IPMI sensors (such as temperature and
voltage sensors) in the system.