Table 1-5. Features of the Board Set

 

 

Feature

Description

 

 

Hot Plug PCI slots

Ten Hot Plug PCI add-in board slot locations (PCI #34, PCI #33, PCI #32,

 

PCI #31, PCI #24, PCI #23, PCI #22, PCI #21, PCI #12, and PCI #11). This

 

comprises eight dedicated 64-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus slots and two 32-bit, 33

 

MHz PCI bus slots on the system I/O board.

 

Note that slot locations PCI#32 and PCI#31 can also accommodate 64-bit,

 

66 MHz PCI cards.

Multiple processor

Four processor sockets on the baseboard (4-way systems only).

slots

Four processor sockets each in the two CPU boxes (8-way systems only).

Upgradable

Sixteen DIMM sockets on a single memory board, supporting up to 16 GB

memory

memory using 1 GB DIMMs. Must use four sticks (4-way interleaving)

 

double sided buffered type only.

SCSI controller

Dual channel onboard Ultra 160/m SCSI controller (PCI-based).

BIOS

Flash memory-based BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and Setup utilities.

Video

Integrated super SVGA controller ships with 4 MB of video memory.

External device

Connectors for two serial ports, parallel printer port, wide SCSI port, two

connectors

USB connectors, 10/100Base-TX connector, PS/2-compatible keyboard and

 

mouse, and SVGA monitor.

Clock

Real-time clock/calendar (RTC).

System hardware

Detects chassis intrusion and contains sensors for temperature, voltage,

monitoring

and fan failure.

Configuration

BIOS Setup and SCSISelect Configuration Utility.

utilities

 

 

 

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5800/180Ra-7 specifications

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