Ta b l e 1 - 3 . P C I / P C I - X S l o t A s s i g n m e n t s f o r Po w e r E d g e C l u s t e r N o d e s ( c o n t in u e d )
PowerEdge | PCI Buses | RAID Controller | NICs | DRAC II or III |
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2500 | Bus 1: PCI slots 6 | Install in any available | Install in any available | If you are currently |
| and 7 are 32 bit, | PCI slot. | Dell recommends installing Emulex | using a DRAC II |
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| cLAN adapters in PCI slot 3, 4, or 5. | ||
| Bus 2: PCI slots 3, |
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| 4, and 5 are 64 bit, |
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| II in PCI slot 7. | |
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| Bus 3: PCI slots 1 |
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| 66 MHz. |
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2550 | Bus 1: PCI slots 1, | Install in any available | NOTE: The Broadcom NIC drivers in | PCI slot 2 is |
| 2, and 3 are 64 bit, | PCI slot. | your cluster node must be one of the | dedicated to |
| 33 MHz. | If you are not currently | following versions: | interface with the |
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| • Windows 2000 Advanced | optional DRAC II. | |
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| using a DRAC II and do | ||
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| future, Dell recommends | • Windows NT Server 4.0, |
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| that you install one RAID | Enterprise |
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| controller in the | or later |
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| slot, even if the RAID | The Broadcom NIC firmware |
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| controller is a | version must be 1.12 or later. The |
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| controller. | integrated Broadcom NIC |
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| firmware revisions were created in |
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| ascending order, starting with |
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| version 1.1 and ending with 1.12 |
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| or later. Consequently, version 1.2 |
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| is an earlier version than version |
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| 1.12. To upgrade the firmware, at |
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| the prompt, type upgf x boot y |
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| where x is the device number of |
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| the integrated Broadcom NIC and |
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| y is the drive letter of where the |
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| firmware file is located. The utility |
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| upgrades the integrated NIC |
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| firmware in your system. The driver |
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| and utility to upgrade the firmware |
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| are available on the Dell Support |
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| website at support.dell.com. |
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