NEC Express5800/140Hb Instruction Manual

System Release Notes
Express5800/140Hb
System Release Notes
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Express5800/140Hb
System Release Notes
The Express5800/140Hb System Release Notes provide up-to-date information
on your system. These notes also provide additional valuable information about
your system that was not included in the user’s guide.
Please read these notes in their entirety.
CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................3
General Comments .................................................................................................................................3
Advisories...............................................................................................................................................3
EXPRESSBUILDER .........................................................................................................................3
SCO....................................................................................................................................................4
System Hardware ...............................................................................................................................4
Documentation Errata.............................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
These System Release Notes cover the following topics:
!General Comments
!Advisories
!Documentation Errata.
General Comments
The following general comments apply to this server.
!Versions of the Network Operating Systems tested and recommended are:
Windows®2000
Windows NT®4.0 Server with Service Pack 6
Novell® NetWare®5.1
SCO OpenServer™5.05 with Maintenance Supplement 505A.
UNIXWare®7.1.1
Advisories
This section contains advisories on the EXPRESSBUILDER, SCO, and system
hardware.
EXPRESSBUILDER
The following advisory applies to EXPRESSBUILDER.
!EXPRESSBUILDER EasySetup always configures the Windows 2000
TCP/IP Protocol IP settings to "Obtain an IP address automatically"
(DHCP), regardless of the IP address setting specified in EasySetup. If static
TCP/IP addressing is required, TCP/IP must be reconfigured. Refer to
Windows documentation for instructions.
!After installing Windows 2000, the Windows 2000 Device Manager may
show an NEC GEM SCSI Processor Device and/or an Unknown Device
under Other Devices. The Unknown Device is a reference to the baseboard
management controller. Installing the ESMPRO Agent can clear both of
these conditions.
!If you already have an operating system installed when creating a
maintenance partition, EXPRESSBUILDER will warn you of the existing
partition. If you want to preserve the installed operating system, do not
create the maintenance partition or the existing operating system will be
overlaid by the maintenance partition.

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!The Administrator Menu in the System Information Management segment
of the Offline Maintenance Utility is accessible only by NEC authorized
service representatives.
!EXPRESSBUILDER operates in floppy emulation mode. The emulated
floppy drive portion of your system CD-ROM is designated Drive A and the
remaining portion(s) of the CD-ROM is designated Drive Q. Your system
diskette drive is Drive B. After creating the Off-line Maintenance Utility
diskette, EXPRESSBUILDER prompts you to remove the diskette from
Drive B. At this prompt, remove the diskette from your diskette drive.
SCO
The following advisory applies when using SCO 5.05.
During the installation of SCO or any time thereafter when booting SCO
a warning message may appear as follows:
WARNING: Cannot connect to APM, error 0x0036 System loaded, press <Return> to
start:
To prevent the WARNING message from appearing, boot the system to
single-user Mode. Edit the /etc/default/boot file. Add "apm.check=no" to
the end of the line indicated by the "DEFBOOTSTR=" entry.
System Hardware
The following advisory applies to the Plug and Play feature of your server's I/O
expansion boards.
The factory standard default value (Hot-Plug PCI Master Control) of the
Plug N Play feature in your server is enabled. The Windows 2000
operating system requires that the Hot-Plug PCI Master Control feature
be enabled. To disable it, if required by your operating system, the Hot-
Plug PCI Master Control feature in the Advanced Submenu of the BIOS
Setup Utility described in Chapter 3 "BIOS Setup Configuration Settings"
can be changed to "disabled."
The following advisory applies to your system's documentation.
Both the User's Guide and Service Guide refer to the two SCSI channels
as either channel A and channel B or as channel 0 and channel 1. The
terms channel A and channel B are used when referencing the SCSI
channels from the on-board SCSI controller. The terms channel 0 and
channel 1 are used when referencing the SCSI channels from a RAID
controller. Therefore, it should be noted that these terms are an exact
counterpart of each other and can be used interchangeability.

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Documentation Errata
The following changes apply to the Express5800/140Hb User's Guide
(456-01546-000) located on the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM:
!Chapter 3, Configuring System Board Jumpers.
Replace Figure 3-2 System Jumpers with the following figure.
AProcessor speed jumper block
(located in the CPU cage)
DBattery power control/reset jumper block
BSystem function jumper block ESystem board
CDump/reset jumper block
Figure 3-2. System Jumpers
Replace Table 3-4 Processor Speed Jumper Summary with the
following table.
Table 3-4. Processor Speed Jumper Summary
Jumper SettingsProcessor
Frequency
(MHz) 1-2 3-4 5-6 6-8
700 ON OFF OFF ON
800 ON OFF ON OFF
900
(Fixed Bus Ratio)
N/A N/A N/A N/A

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