Dell

 

Can user programs or

Purpose?

 

operating system write data to

 

 

it during normal operation?

 

2.5” Backplane or 3.5" Backplane

 

 

 

 

 

Storage Controller

 

 

Processor

No

Backplane firmware (HDD status, etc.)

 

 

 

Control Panel

 

 

Internal USB

 

Normal usage is read only software license key, but not

 

Yes as allowed by OS

limited

 

 

 

Internal SD

 

 

Module

Yes as allowed by OS

Normal usage is embedded hypervisor OS but not limited.

Power Supply

 

 

PSU

 

Power supply operation, power telemetry data, and fault

Microcontroller

No

behaviors

iDRAC6

 

 

Enterprise

 

 

vFlash

Yes when enabled, installed,

 

 

and the media does not have

 

 

the write-protect switch

 

 

applied

Storage of logs, user images like files, drivers, OS's, etc.

 

 

 

Table 33. Methodology for Data Input to Memory

 

How is data input to this memory?

 

 

Planar

 

 

 

System BIOS SPI

Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program which

 

 

Flash

 

 

is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable containing

 

 

 

 

 

 

the firmware file and the loader. A system loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory

 

 

 

will not operate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOM Configuration

Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program which

 

 

Data

is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable containing

 

 

 

the firmware file and the loader. LOMs loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory

 

 

 

would not operate.

 

 

iDRAC6 Controller

N/A

 

 

ROM

 

 

 

 

 

 

iDRAC6 controller

 

 

 

RAM

iDRAC embedded system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System CPLD

Loading flash memory requires a vendor provided firmware file and loader program which

 

 

 

is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS based executable (currently

 

 

 

only DRMK utility support) containing the firmware file and the loader. System loaded with

 

 

 

arbitrary data in CPLD memory would not operate.

 

 

System CPLD

Not used

 

 

 

 

 

 

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T310 specifications

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