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| 1. What is one of the biggest
features of the SR102 over other products in the server market? |
| It was not designed by multiple companies lacking a
common focus. The SR102 was designed by Gigabyte for ultra high
density, rack optimized operating environments. The goal - eliminate
the technical obstacles that arise when using assemblies designed
and manufactured by multiple manufacturers who lack a common focus
and direction. |
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| 2. What base technology does
Gigabyte bring to the SR102? |
| First Gigabyte is one of 3 motherboard manufacturers
world wide who have the design and manufacturing facilities plus the
experience of shipping over a 1 million motherboards a month. These
are motherboards that are executing virtually every operating system
designed to be run on an Intel based platform. Gigabyte then
designed an efficient environment to put the motherboard into, an
environment based exclusively on a rack optimized 1U chassis design. |
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| 3. Why do you call the SR102 a
server platform? |
| A server platform is a product, made up with what we
classify as non commodity components such as motherboard, chassis,
power supply, signal and power distribution systems with an
efficient cooling system. It is that stable platform that you add
your commodity products such as processor(s), memory, disk drive(s),
OS and application software. |
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| 4. What chipset is Gigabyte using in
the SR102 and why? |
| We selected the ServerWorks 3.0 LE chipset because
it supports a 133MHz FSB bus for increased bandwidth, dual peer PCI
bus architecture for concurrent memory with processor access from
both PCI buses for improved system performance and 133MHz registered
SDRAM ECC DIMM memory system for superior memory performance and
flexibility in memory configurations. |
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| 5. What options are available for
the SR102? |
| We have one option, Rackslides. |
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| 6 .What operating systems does
the SR102 support? |
| The SR102 supports Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux
(RED HAT 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, SuSE 7.1,7.2) & Netware 5.1 |
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| 7. Do you sell your products to
companies who OEM or private label products like your server
platforms? |
| Yes. We sell our products to the channel, OEM’s and
companies that private label products. We can put together a product
and support program to match the unique market needs of each class
of customer. |
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| 8. How is the benefit of
having 64-bit PCI slots? |
| The 64-bit PCI slots allow for support of high
performance (64-bit) SCSI Controllers such as Array Controllers,
Gigabit Ethernet Controllers or Fiber Channel Controllers. |
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| 9. Can I plug my 32-bit PCI
cards into the 64-bit PCI slots? |
| Yes. The SR102 supports 3.3V and universal voltage
compliant (board that supports both 3.3V and 5V) PCI cards. Older,
legacy 5V-ONLY PCI cards are not supported. |
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| 10. Is the SR102 Microsoft
certified? |
| Yes. You can find the SR102 listed on Microsoft
Hardware Certification List web site located at
http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl . |
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| 11. What SCSI chip controller
do you have in the SR102 and why did you select it? |
| We selected the 53C1010 chip from Symbios. The
reason we selected Symbios is that they have been involved with SCSI
since SCSI’s inception over 15 years ago and they have probably the
largest selection of OS SCSI drivers in the industry. To find out
what drivers they support, you can go to their Technical Support web
site at
http://www.lsilogic.com/support/index.html |
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| 12. What type of drives can we
put into the SR102 drive bays? |
| The drive bays are designed to handle any 1 inch
high SCSI disk drive with SCA connectors. |
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| 13. Does the SR102 come with
integrated RAID? |
| No. The SR102 comes standard with both dual channel
Ultra ATA/100 and a dual channel Ultra 160 SCSI controllers.
Internal RAID 0, 1 support can be added by using a software RAID
utility or by adding a internal RAID PCI controller such as the
Mylex AcceleRAID 170 single channel RAID controller or their
eXtemeRAID 3000 Fibre Channel RAID controller or an external SCSI to
SCSI or SCSI to Fibre Channel RAID controller via our external Ultra
160 SCSI connection. |
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| 14. What Processors does the
SR102 support? |
| The SR102 supports Intel Pentium III processors
with speeds up to 1GHz. |
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| 15. Does the SR102 support
dual processor configurations? |
| Yes. An added feature of the SR102 is that you can
start with a single processor configuration and as your server
requirements grow, you can add a second processor later. |
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| 16. What memory does the
SR102 use? |
| Up to 4 GB of PC133MHz ECC SDRAM memory. |
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| 17. How do I expand the SR102
memory? |
| Maximum memory configuration is attained by
installing four 1024MB 133MHz registered ECC SDRAM DIMMs (one in
each DIMM socket). Memory can be expanded 1 DIMM module at a time. |
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| 18. What are some of the
benefits of having a built in dual NIC controller? |
- Extra PCI slots - having dual embedded NIC cards does not
consume PCI slots. In a 1U rack optimized package, the SR102 can
be applied to applications not available to other manufacturers.
- Fail over - the dual NIC is able to work like a single NIC
card. If one should fail, the other takes over with users not
experiencing any difference in network performance.
- Load balancing - as mentioned above the dual NIC work like
one, each sharing the network traffic, effectively doubling the
sever I/O bandwidth, resulting in better network performance.
- Firewall- the dual NIC configuration has the capability to
provide firewall function by using one NIC port for outside
Internet and the other for local area traffic.
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| 19.
Does the SR102 contain any internal monitoring and reporting
functions? |
| Yes. The SR102 has an ACPI (Advanced Configuration
& Power Interface) function built into the motherboard. Some of the
functions monitored by the ACPI function monitors are the presence
of a second CPU, fan speed & temperature for each CPU, system
temperature & Voltages. If the installed operating system supports
the ACPI function, as Windows does, the operating can perform tasks
like automatically power itself off if the CPU temperature exceeds
pre-selected limits. |
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