I/O Subsystems

Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4

3.4Gigabit Ethernet

A single Broadcom* BCM5704C controller provides the on-board Gigabit Ethernet interface. This controller has two ports that can independently operate at 1000/100/10 Mbps and support failover and teaming for greater reliability and performance. The two Media Access Controllers support full-duplex and half-duplex modes at all speeds and have their own PCI configuration space and on-chip memory for higher performance with load balancing and packet buffering. For optimal performance, the controller is configured as a 64-bit PCI-X 133MHz device. The ICH5 contains an Ethernet controller, but this device is not used by the Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4.

3.5Serial ATA (SATA)

The ICH5 provides a Serial ATA (SATA) interface with a transfer rate of up to 1.5GB/s. The Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard has a standard 7-pin vertical connector for this feature. SATA cables should be 1m (40 inches) or less in length.

3.6Fibre Channel

The Intel® Fibre Channel Module seats into a custom-wired PCI Express x16 slot on the Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard, which is attached to the Intel® IOP332 Storage I/O Processor. The module uses a Qlogic* ISP2322 FC-PCI-X controller and has the following features:

ƒTwo independent 2 Gbps Fibre Channel ports

ƒSupport for Fibre Channel virtual interface (VI) protocol

ƒAutomatically negotiates Fibre Channel bit rate (1 or 2 Gbps)

ƒSupports up to 400 MBps sustained Fibre Channel data transfer rate

ƒ1 MB SRAM per port

ƒData and code parity protection

ƒHost intervention not required to execute complete SCSI, IP, or VI operations

ƒLC-style optical connectors

ƒWorks with the Qlogic SANsurfer* Management Suite and other Qlogic FC cards

For more information, please refer to the Intel® Fibre Channel Module User Guide.

3.7Firmware Hubs

The Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard has a combined total of 4MB flash memory that serves as the firmware hub (FWH) for the system BIOS. The system BIOS fits into 2MB of flash, but twice that is required to support the rolling BIOS feature. See Chapter 5 for more information on the rolling BIOS.

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