Archive Linux Hardware Matrix

Released December 2015
Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT functional w/ as-is OS)
RHEL WS 3 U8 or later (x86)
RHEL WS 3 U8 or later
(EM64T)
RHEL WS 4 U5 or later (x86
& EM64T)
RHEL DT 5 or later (x86 &
x86 64)
HP Workstation Base System
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.
• • • •
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP Localization Kit
• • • •
Software
Remote Graphics Software • •
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) • • • •
Hyperthreading
• • • •
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440
• •
NVIDIA Quadro FX560
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600
11 11 11 11
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
• • • •
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCIe
• •
ATI v3350 PCIe
• •
ATI v7200 PCIe
• •
System RAM
Minimum (MB)
512 512 512 512
Maximum
8GB 8GB 8GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS Disk Drives 5 5 5 5
All Supported SATA Disk Drives
5,7 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys • • • •
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCIe
• • • •
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000
2 2 2 2
Onboard Audio
10 10 10 10
Onboard SATA RAID
6 6
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card • • • •
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-RAID U320 SCSI Controllers
• • • •
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware RAID
6 6
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive
• • • •
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
• • • •
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo
• • • •
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW
4 4 4 4
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
9 9 9 9
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
9 9 9 9
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
9 9 9 9
HP Standard Keyboard, USB
9 9 9 9
Modular Keyboard/ TPM Module/ Smart Card
All Supported Monitors
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footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 10 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4400. For RHEL4, use the built-in ALSA Sound Support.
Linux Hardware Matrix for HP Workstations
HP xw4400 Workstation
Originally certified with RHEL 3 Update 8 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL4 Update 4 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
This page is not complete without the General Notes (first page of the matrix).
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy,
AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English).
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4400. Under
Download options, select Get drivers,
software & firmware
. To locate the 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations', select Manuals and then select Setup and install - general.
footnote 11 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E Card (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA RAID is not supported.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe functionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. Mixed drives are offered on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 7 - The xw4400 can support up to 4 SATA drives. To support the 3rd and 4th SATA drives, you must acquire the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 9 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported.