18 pSeries 610 Models 6C1 and 6E1 Technical Overview and Introduction

Internal devices

Boot support is available for every internal SCSI disk.

External devices

Table2-3 provides a map that enables you to determine if boot is supported in external
storage devices.
Table 2-3 Boot support - external devices

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