Silicon Graphics Rackable C2108-TY10 User manual

SGI®Rackable™ C2108-TY10 System
User’s Guide
007-5688-003

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Record of Revision
Version Description
001 September 2010
Original printing.
003 August 2011
Miscellaneous corrections.

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Contents
Record of Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Server Board Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Serial ATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PCI Expansion Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
UIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Onboard Controllers/Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
ATI Graphics Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Server Chassis Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Serial ATA Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Front Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Motherboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cooling System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Server Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Unpack the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Prepare for Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Choose a Setup Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Warnings and Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rack Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Server Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Rack Mounting Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Ambient Operating Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Reduced Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mechanical Loading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Circuit Overloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Reliable Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Install the System into a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Separate the Sections of the Rack Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Outer Rack Rails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Install the Outer Rails to the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Install the Inner Rail Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Install the Inner Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Install the Server in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Check the Node Board Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Access the Inside of the Chassis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Check the CPUs (processors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Check the System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Install Expansion PCI Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Check all Cable Connections and Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Check the Drive Bay Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Check the System Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Check the Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Supply Power to the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 System Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Control Panel Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Control Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Power Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Overheat/Fan Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
NIC1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
NIC2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SATA Drive Carrier LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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4 System Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Electrical Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
General Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ESD Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5 Advanced Severboard Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Handling the Node Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ESD Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Connecting the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
I/O Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Serverboard Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Serverboard Quick Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Install DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Memory DIMM Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Memory DIMM Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Mixing Processors and DIMM Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Hard Disk Drives (SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 Chassis) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
PCI Card Slotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing Selected PCI cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6 Advanced Chassis Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Static-Sensitive Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
System Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
System Fan Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Replacing System Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Removing a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing a New Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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Drive Bay Installation/Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Accessing the Drive Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SATA Drive Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Mounting a SATA Drive in a Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing/Removing Hot-swap SATA Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Hard Drive Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
DVD-ROM Drive Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Accessing the Inside of the Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Power Supply Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Removing/Replacing the Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Removing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing a New Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
7 BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Starting BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
How To Change the Configuration Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Starting the Setup Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Main Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
System Time/System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Serverboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Advanced Setup Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Boot Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Quick Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Quiet Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
AddOn ROM Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Bootup Num-Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Wait For 'F1' If Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Hit 'Del' Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Interrupt 19 Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Power Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Power Button Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Restore on AC Power Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Watch Dog Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Processor and Clock Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Ratio CMOS Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
C1E Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Hardware Prefetcher (Available when supported by the CPU) . . . . . . . . . 66
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch (Available when supported by the CPU) . . . . . . . 66
Intel Virtualization Technology (Available when supported by the CPU) . . . . . . 66
Execute-Disable Bit Capability (Available when supported by the OS and the CPU) . . . 66
Simultaneous Multi-Threading (Available when supported by the CPU). . . . . . . 66
Active Processor Cores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Intel EIST Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Intel TurboMode Technology (Available when Intel EIST Technology is enabled) . . . . 67
Intel C-STATE Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
C-State package limit setting (Available when Intel® C-State Tech is enabled) . . . . . 67
C1 Auto Demotion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
C3 Auto Demotion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Clock Spread Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Advanced Chipset Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
CPU Bridge Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Serial Debug Message Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
North Bridge Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Crystal Beach/Direct Memory Access (DMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Crystal Beach/ Direct Cache Access (DCA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Intel VT-d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SouthBridge Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
USB Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Legacy USB Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
USB 2.0 Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
USB 2.0 Controller Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
BIOS EHCI Hand-Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Intel PCI-X Hub Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
PCI Bus A0/B0 Frequency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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I/O Port Decode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
RAS Sticky Error Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
VGA 16-Bit Decode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
IDE and SATA Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SATA#1 Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Primary IDE Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Hot Plug. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
IDE Detect Timeout (sec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
PCI/PnP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Clear NVRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Plug & Play OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
PCI Latency Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
PCI IDE BusMaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Load Onboard LAN1 Option ROM/Load Onboard LAN2 Option ROM . . . . . . . 77
Super IO Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Serial Port1 Address/ Serial Port2 Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Remote Access Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Hardware Health Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
CPU Overheat Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
CPU Temperature/System Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ACPI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
ACPI Version Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
ACPI APIC Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
APIC ACPI SCI IRQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Headless Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
High Performance Event Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Trusted Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
TCG/TPM Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
IPMI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Status of BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
View BMC System Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Clear BMC System Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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Set LAN Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
IP Address Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Parameter Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Current IP Address in BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
MAC Address Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Parameter Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Mac Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Current Mac Address in BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Subnet Mask Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Parameter Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
SEL PEF Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
PEF Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
PEF Action Global Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Alert Startup Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
PEF Alert Startup Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Startup Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
PEF Startup Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
BMC Watch Dog Timer Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
DMI Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
View Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Mark all events as read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Clear event log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Security Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Boot Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Boot Device Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Hard Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Removable Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Exit Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Save Changes and Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Discard Changes and Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Discard Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Load Optimal Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Load Fail-Safe Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
A BIOS Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
B System Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chipset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Memory Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SATA Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SATA Drive Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Peripheral Drive Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Expansion Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Serverboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
System Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
System Input Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Operating Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Regulatory Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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Figures
Figure 1-1 SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 Server . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Figure 1-2 Intel 5520/ICH10R Chipset System Block Diagram. . . . . . . 6
Figure 2-1 Separating and Installing the Rack Rails. . . . . . . . . . 11
Figure 2-2 Installing the Server in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 2-3 Accessing the Inside of the System . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 3-1 System Reset Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 3-2 System Power On Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 3-3 Power Fail LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 3-4 Overheat/Fan Fail LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 3-5 LAN1 Network Activity NIC1 LED . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 3-6 LAN2 Network Activity NIC2 LED . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 3-7 Hard Drive Activity LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Figure 3-8 Power On LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Figure 4-1 Installing the Onboard Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 5-1 Control Panel Header Pins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Figure 5-2 I/O Ports Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Figure 5-3 Node Board Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Figure 5-4 DIMM Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Figure 5-5 Installing DIMM Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Figure 5-6 Removing a DIMM Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 5-7 Memory DIMM Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Figure 5-8 Memory Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Figure 5-9 SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 Disk Drive Locations . . . . . . . 45
Figure 5-10 Base PCI card configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Figure 6-1 Front and Rear Chassis Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Figure 6-2 Removing System Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 6-3 Mounting a SATA Drive in a Carrier . . . . . . . . . . 54
Figure 6-4 Removing SATA Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Figures
Figure 7-1 System Overview Main BIOS Setup Screen . . . . . . . . . 61
Figure 7-2 Advanced Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Figure 7-3 Security Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Figure 7-4 Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Figure 7-5 Exit Options Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Tables
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Tables
Table 5-1 Jumper Descripton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Table 5-2 Recommended Memory DIMM Configurations. . . . . . . . 40
Table 5-3 Non-Optimal Memory DIMM Configurations . . . . . . . . 43
Table A-1 BIOS Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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About This Guide
This guide provides an overview of the installation, architecture, general operation, and
descriptions of the major components in the SGI®Rackable®C2108-TY10 server. It also provides
basic troubleshooting and maintenance information, BIOS information, and important safety and
regulatory specifications.
Audience
This guide is written for owners, installers, system administrators, and users of SGI Rackable
C2108-TY10 computer systems. It is written with the assumption that the reader has a good
working knowledge of computers and computer systems.
Chapter Descriptions
The following topics are covered in this guide:
• Chapter 1, “Introduction”
Provides an overview SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 server components.
• Chapter 2, “Server Installation”
Provides a quick setup checklist to get the SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 operational.
• Chapter 3, “System Interface”
Describes several LEDs on the control panel as well as others on the SATA drive carriers
that keep you constantly informed of the overall status of the system as well as the activity
and health of specific components.
• Chapter 4, “System Safety”
Provides system safety information.
• Chapter 5, “Advanced Severboard Setup”
Provides procedures to install a node board into the SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 chassis,
connect the data and power cables, and install expansion cards.

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• Chapter 6, “Advanced Chassis Setup”
Describes the steps required to install components and perform maintenance on the SGI
Rackable C2108-TY10 chassis.
• Chapter 7, “BIOS”
Describes the AMI BIOS Setup Utility for the SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 severboard.
•Appendix A, “BIOS Error Codes,”
Provides BIOS error code information.
• Appendix B, “System Specifications,”
Describes system component specifications.

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Related Publications
The following SGI and LSI documents are relevant to the SGI Rackable C2108-TY10 server:
•MegaRAID SAS Software User’s Guide, publication number, publication number
860-0488-00x
•MegaRAID 1078-based SAS RAID Controllers User’s Guide, publication number
860-0489-00x
•LSI Integrated SAS for RAID User’s Guide, publication number 860-0476-00x
•SGI Foundation Software Start Here, publication number 007-5641-00x
• SGI Performance Suite Start Here, publication number 007-5680-00x
•SGI InfiniteStorage series documentation
• Man pages (online)
You can obtain SGI documentation (as well as the pertinent LSI books), release notes, or man
pages in the following ways:
• Refer to the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are
available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books,
release notes, man pages, and other information.
• You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line.
SGI systems include a set of Linux®man pages, formatted in the standard UNIX®“man page”
style. Important system configuration files and commands are documented on man pages. These
are found online on the internal system disk (or DVD-CD) and are displayed using the man
command. For example, to display the man page for the xscsidisktest command, type the
following on a command line:
man xscsidisktest
For additional information about displaying man pages using the man command, see man(1).
In addition, the apropos command locates man pages based on keywords. For example, to
display a list of man pages that describe disks, type the following on a command line:
apropos disk
For information about setting up and using apropos, see apropos(1).

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Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
Product Support
SGI provides a comprehensive product support and maintenance program for its products. SGI
also offers services to implement and integrate Linux applications in your environment.
• Refer to http://www.sgi.com/support/
• If you are in North America, contact the Technical Assistance Center at
[phone]SGI or contact your authorized service provider.
• If you are outside North America, contact the SGI subsidiary or authorized distributor in
your country.
Convention Meaning
Command This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files,
routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language
structures.
variable The italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being
defined. Italic typeface is also used for book titles.
user input This bold fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in
interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.
[ ] Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.
... Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.
man page(x) Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.
GUI element This font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements such
as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes,
fields, and lists.