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Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 6
... Hard Drive Activity LED Support 89
8.4.7 System Status LED Support 89
8.5
I/O Connectors ...89
8.5.1 VGA Connector ...89
8.5.2 SATA and SAS Connectors 90
8.5.3 Serial Port Connectors 90
8.5.4 USB Connector ...91
8.6
Fan Headers ...92
9. Jumper Blocks...93
9.1
BIOS Recovery Jumper 94
9.2
Management Engine (ME) Firmware Force Update Jumper Block 95
9.3
Password Clear Jumper...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 17
...® Server Board S1400FP TPS
Overview
Figure 2. Intel® Server Board S1400FP Layout
Table 2. Intel® Server Board S1400FP Component Layout
Description
Description
A
Serial B header
Y
TPM header
B
RMM4 header
Z
Storage Upgrade Key
C
Slot 2, 32bit/33MHz PCI
AA
BIOS Recovery jumper
D
eUSB SSD Header
AB
Password Clear jumper
E
Slot 3, PCI Express* Gen2 x4 electrical...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 42
... up to two ports (Port 0 and 1 Only) while all ports support rates up to 3.0 Gb/s (300 MB/s) and up to 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). The SATA controller contains two modes of operation - a legacy mode using I/O space, and an AHCI mode using memory space. Software that uses legacy mode will not have AHCI capabilities. The C600 chipset supports the Serial ATA Specification, Revision 3.0. The...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 46
... allows the remote machine to control and configure the client by entering BIOS setup. The KVM/SOL function emulates a standard PCI serial port and redirects the data from the serial port to the management console using LAN. KVM has additional requirements of internal graphics and SOL may be used when KVM is not supported.
3.3.23 On-board Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)/Serial ATA (SATA) Support and...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 47
... memory and CPU utilization
Supported RAID Levels - 0,1,5,10 o 4 and 8 Port SATA RAID 5 support provided with appropriate Intel® RAID C600 Upgrade Key o 4 and 8 Port SAS RAID 5 support provided with appropriate Intel® RAID C600 Upgrade Key
Maximum drive support = Eight (with or without SAS expander option installed)
Open Source Compliance = Binary Driver...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 48
... Board S1400FP TPS
3.3.23.2
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (RSTe)
Features of the embedded software RAID option Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (RSTe) include the following:
Software RAID with system providing memory and CPU utilization
Supported RAID Levels - 0,1,5,10
o 4 Port SATA RAID 5 available standard (no option key required) o 8 Port SATA RAID 5 support...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 54
...-free before releasing system control to the operating system. A TPM device provides secured storage to store data, such as security keys and passwords. In addition, a TPM device has encryption and hash functions. The server board implements TPM as per TPM PC Client Specifications, revision 1.2, by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).
A TPM device is optionally installed onto a high density 14...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 55
... an operating system modifies the TPM state, the BIOS Setup displays the updated TPM state.
The BIOS Setup TPM Clear option allows the operator to clear the TPM ownership key and allows the operator to take control of the system with TPM. You use this option to clear security settings for a newly initialized system or to clear a system...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 62
...which the server board is integrated and any additional system level components and options that may be installed.
6.1.1 IPMI 2.0 Features
Baseboard management controller (BMC) IPMI Watchdog timer Messaging support, including command bridging and user/session support Chassis device functionality, including power/reset control and BIOS boot flags support ...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 93
...feature is intended to allow system administrators or users to mount a remote IDE or USB CD-ROM, floppy drive, or a USB flash disk as a remote device to the server. Once mounted, the remote device appears just like a local device to the server, allowing system administrators or users to install software (including operating systems), copy files, update BIOS, and so on, or boot the server from this...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 94
... the BIOS boot order to boot from this remote device.
It is possible to install an operating system on a bare metal server (no OS present) using the remotely mounted device. This may also require the use of KVM-r to configure the OS during install.
USB storage devices will appear as floppy disks over media redirection. This allows for the installation of device drivers...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 106
... the BIOS recovery process:
1. After downloading the latest System Update Package (SUP) from the Intel Web site, copy the following files to the root directory of a USB media device: IPMI.EFI IFlash32.EFI RML.ROM ####REC.CAP (where #### = BIOS revision number) STARTUP.NSH
2. Power OFF the system 3. Locate the BIOS Recovery Jumper on the server board and...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 107
...; Server Board S1400FP TPS
Jumper Blocks
11. Configure desired BIOS settings
9.2 Management Engine (ME) Firmware Force Update Jumper Block
When the ME Firmware Force Update jumper is moved from its default position, the ME is forced to operate in a reduced minimal operating capacity. This jumper should only be used if the ME firmware has gotten corrupted and requires re-installation...
Intel Server Board S1400FP Technical Product Specification - Page 108
... BIOS Error Manager should report an 84F3 error code (Baseboard Management Controller in update mode). 5. Boot to the EFI shell and update the BMC firmware using BMC####.NSH (where #### is the version number of the BMC). 6. When update has successfully completed, power off system 7. Remove AC power cords. 8. Move BMC FRC UPDT jumper back to the default position 9. Install AC power cords. 10. Power...
Specification update - Page 3
...* 7 with default NIC driver for Intel® Gigabit ET Dual
Port Server Adapter E1G42ET and Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter E1G44ET.....8
15.
Intel® LAN driver installation failure on Microsoft Windows* 7 8
16.
Hard drives connected through SAS expander can't be detected in legacy mode ..8
17.
On-board VGA cannot be set to the highest resolution (1920x1080 and higher...
Specification update - Page 6
...* 7 with default NIC driver for Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter
E1G42ET and Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter E1G44ET
15. Fixed Intel® LAN driver installation failure on Microsoft Windows* 7
16.
Fix Hard drives connected through SAS expander can't be detected in legacy mode
17.
Fix On-board VGA cannot be set to the highest resolution (1920x1080 and higher...
Specification update - Page 8
... not supported on Red Hat* Linux and SUSE* Linux.
Implication
User may not able to install Red Hat* Linux and SUSE* Linux on Intel® C600 Series Chipset based Server Boards under Intel® RSTe mode.
Status
This issue may be fixed in future driver or BIOS releases.
Workaround None.
2. UEFI Microsoft Windows Server 2008* R2 SP1 installation on SCU ports...
Specification update - Page 9
... AHCI controller is enabled and no devices are attached to the AHCI SATA ports.
Status
This issue may be fixed in a future RAID driver.
Workaround The workaround is to either plug a SATA device into one of the AHCI SATA ports, or disable the onboard AHCI controller in BIOS.
6. System may halt under specific BIOS configurations
Problem
Once BIOS options "EFI Optimized Boot" and "Memory Mapped...
Specification update - Page 10
Monthly Specification Update
Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing
Implication
Status Workaround
User may not able to install Microsoft Windows Server 2003* x86 on mentined BIOS configuration.
This issue may be fixed in a future RSTe driver release.
None.
8. System may halt under unsupported configuration in ESRT2 mode
Problem
If no Intel® C600 RAID upgrade key (any of RKSAS4, ...
Specification update - Page 12
...with default NIC driver for Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter E1G42ET and Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter E1G44ET
Problem
There has been high CPU load observed when installing or running Microsoft
Windows Server 2008* R2 or Microsoft Windows 7* with default NIC (Network Interface Card) driver for Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter E1G42ET and Intel®...