Specification Update

Monthly Specification Update Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing
27
51. ‘Fdisk’ command under Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5 Update 1
may report an Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II RAID 1 array
as two hard disk drives
Problem Sometimes, ‘fdisk’ command under Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5 Update
1 may report an Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology II (ESRTII) RAID 1
array as two hard disk drives. In the correct way, the Intel
®
ESRTII RAID 1
array should be detected as one hard disk drive.
Implication Following the driver installation guide on the Intel
®
ESRTII Linux driver
README file will have the RAID 1 array being detected by ‘fdisk’ correctly.
Status A more detailed driver installation guide is provided with Intel
®
ESRTII Linux
driver v.10.21.0507.2008.
Workaround None.
52. Platform Confidence Test (PCT) may fail with BIOS 89 and later version
loaded
Problem Customer may experience problems when they run PCT on Intel
®
Server Board
S5000PSL with BIOS 89 and later version loaded. There are two types of test
options when a customer runs PCT test, Quick Test, and Comprehensive Test.
The customer may see the following behavior during the PCT test.
Status This erratum was fixed with BIOS R0094.
Workaround This issue is caused by the imcompatibility between the BIOS and PCT; it will
not impact system stablity or performance. Customer can ignore this issue or
roll back to BIOS 85 to run the PCT.
53. BIOS 94 does not support mixed stepping E-0 and C-0 processors
Problem BIOS code specifically designed to allow support for mixed stepping
processors was not included in BIOS R0094.
Implication The use of mixed stepping E-0 and C-0 processors and BIOS R0094 may
cause erratic system behavior such as operating systems failing to load or
install.
Quick Test
***ERROR T.EXE
Unknown error:MSDRAM64.EXE
Standard Error Code = 01300005
Comprehensive Test System hangs at Probing ICH