NICs
—NICs can be installed in any available PCI slot. Dell recommends that Giganet cLAN adapters be installed in PCI slots 1 or 2.
DRAC 2
—If you are currently using a DRAC 2 or plan to use one in the future, install it in PCI slot 2.
NOTES: If you plan to use a DRAC 2, one PCI slot is available for a PERC 2/DC RAID controller for shared storage.
To make sure that the SCSI or RAID controller attached to the boot drives initializes first, you may have to change the scan order of the PCI bus, if the BIOS supports this option, or change the order of the RAID, NIC, and DRAC 2. Performing these tasks ensures that Windows numbers the boot drives in the proper sequence.
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The following list provides PCI slot assignment information for the system’s PCI buses, RAID controllers, NICs, and DRAC 2.
PCI buses
—PCI bus 1: PCI slots 1 and 2 are
—PCI bus 2: PCI slots 3 through 6 are
—PCI bus 3: PCI slot 7 is
RAID controllers
—RAID controllers can be installed in any available
—If you use multiple RAID controllers and there are available slots, Dell recom- mends installing the RAID controllers on separate PCI buses to balance the load on the system.
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