IBM 6.00E+01 manual Miscellaneous, Internal devices, External devices, Fast boot

Internal devices

Boot support is available for every internal SCSI disk.

External devices

Table 2-3provides a map that enables you to determine if boot is supported in external storage devices.

Table 2-3 Boot support - external devices

Does the PCI card have RAID functionality?

Yes	No
The PCI card is seen as a	The PCI card is seen as a adapter.
controller and therefore we
	Does the external devices have RAID functionality?
have no boot support.
	Yes	No
	No boot support (except	Boot support
	Advanced SerialRAID Plus
	adapter)

Note: SSA boot is possible from an Advanced SerialRAID Plus Adapter, provided a non-RAID SSA disk is included as part of the configuration. Other disks associated with the adapter can be RAID, but at least one disk must be a non-RAID SSA disk. The non-RAID SSA disk can be located in an external SSA storage unit. If your system is running with AIX 4.3.3 or later software, native boot capability is supported.

For factory system orders with AIX preload requested, an internal SCSI disk drive will be preloaded as the native boot disk.

Fast boot

The Models 6C1 and 6E1 offer a Fast Boot option. For more detailed information, refer to “Fast boot” on page 25.

2.6 Miscellaneous

The following selected information about ISA, USB, NEBS compliance, and HMT is given in the following list. At the time of writing, the following are not supported:

￿Industry standard architecture (ISA) adapters

￿Universal Serial Bus (USB) adapters

￿Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) requirements

￿Hardware multi-threading (HMT)

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