Tested Hardware and Operating System List

Table of Contents Intel® Server Boards S5000PSL/S5000XSL, Intel® Workstation Board
S5000XVN, and Intel® Server System SC5400RA
iv Revision 2.9
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Test Overview..........................................................................................................1
1.1.1 Basic Installation Testing.........................................................................................1
1.1.2 Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing ............................................2
1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria .............................................................................................3
2. Base System Configurations...............................................................................................4
3. Supported Operating Systems............................................................................................6
3.1 Operating System Certifications ............................................................................11
4. Adapters and Peripherals..................................................................................................17
4.1 SATA RAID Controller ...........................................................................................18
4.2 SAS and SAS RAID Controller ..............................................................................21
4.3 SCSI and SCSI RAID Controllers ..........................................................................31
4.4 Fiber Channel ........................................................................................................35
4.5 NIC.........................................................................................................................37
4.6 Modems.................................................................................................................42
4.7 Removable Media..................................................................................................43
4.8 USB/PS2 Human Input Device ..............................................................................46
4.9 CD-ROM Drives.....................................................................................................47
4.10 CD-RW Drives .......................................................................................................48
4.11 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drives .....................................................................................48
4.12 DVD+R/RW............................................................................................................50
4.13 DVD Drives............................................................................................................51
4.14 Tape Drives ...........................................................................................................52
4.15 KVM.......................................................................................................................53
4.16 Audio......................................................................................................................54
4.17 Video......................................................................................................................55
5. Hard Disk Drives.................................................................................................................59
6. Installation Guidelines.......................................................................................................60
6.1 List of currently unsupported features for S5000PSLSATAR and S5000XVNSASR
in Solaris 10 U4 08/07 .............................................................................................................60
6.2 Solaris 10 U4 (08/07) Requires Kernel Patch in order for E54xx and E52xx devices
to function properly ..................................................................................................................60
6.3 Drivers for Solaris 10 U4 (08/07) ...........................................................................60