Detail Notes: This is a component designed to fit into a Bladecenter Chassis. The Bladecenter Chassis (8677-1xx) is required for operation.
Tested and certified as an IDE controller ONLY. All RAID functionality MUST be disabled through BIOS settings prior to installation.
Recognized as a SCSI disk drive.
Quantity up to 2, depending on number of switch modules installed in chassis.
Broadcom based Gigabit Ethernet card which provides two additional ethernet interfaces. This option also requires that one or more additional ethernet switches be installed in the Bladecenter chassis.
Detail Notes: **NOTICE** -- When installing or running the x86_64 port of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.3), you must pass the option acpi=noirq to the kernel command line either via grub.conf modification or at the boot: prompt at the start of the installation. Failure to do so will result in a hang or crash early in the boot process! This option is not necessary when running the x86 port of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.3) on this system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.3 Update 3) or newer is required for this system.
Qlogic 2300 based Fiber Channel SCSI HBA tested with the qla2300 kernel module. This option also requires that one or more Fiber switches be installed in the Bladecenter chassis.