Supero SUPERSERVER 6012L-6, User Manual

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Page 2: ...R INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN PARTICULAR THE VENDOR SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED W...

Page 3: ...ter 1 Introduction The first chapter provides a checklist of the main components included with the server system and describes the main features of the SUPER P4DLR mainboard and the SC812 EO chassis w...

Page 4: ...er when adding or removing processors or main memory and when reconfiguring the motherboard Chapter 6 Advanced Chassis Setup Refer to Chapter 6 for detailed information on the 1U SC812 EO rackmount se...

Page 5: ...v Preface Notes...

Page 6: ...2 1 Choosing a Setup Location 2 2 Rack Precautions 2 2 Server Precautions 2 2 2 4 Installing the SuperServer 6012L 6 into a Rack 2 3 Identifying the Sections of the Rack Rails 2 3 Installing the Chass...

Page 7: ...nnecting Power Cables 5 5 Connecting the Control Panel 5 6 5 4 I O Ports 5 7 5 5 Installing Memory 5 7 5 6 Adding PCI Cards 5 9 5 7 Motherboard Layout 5 10 SUPER P4DLR Layout 5 10 SUPER P4DLR Quick Re...

Page 8: ...Watch Dog Enable Disable 5 21 LAN1 Enable Disable 5 21 LAN2 Enable Disable 5 21 SCSI Enable Disable 5 22 SCSI Termination Enable Disable 5 22 PCI X Bus Speed Setting 5 22 33 MHz PCI Enable Disable 5 2...

Page 9: ...7 AMIBIOS 7 1 Introduction 7 1 7 2 BIOS Features 7 2 7 3 Running Setup 7 2 7 4 Advanced BIOS Setup 7 4 7 5 Chipset Setup 7 15 7 6 PCI PnP Setup 7 17 7 7 Power Setup 7 19 7 8 Boot Setup 7 21 7 9 Securi...

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Page 11: ...perServer 6012L 6 www supermicro com In addition to the mainboard and chassis various hardware components may have been included with your SuperServer 6012L 6 as listed below l One or two 603 pin Inte...

Page 12: ...rd 1 drives are supported SCA Single Connection Attach ment The SCSI drives are connected to an SCA backplane that provides power bus termination and configuration settings The SCSI drives are also ho...

Page 13: ...nal SCSI port See Figure 1 1 Cooling System The SC812 EO chassis revolutionary cooling design has been optimized to provide sufficient cooling for dual Xeon configurations The SC812 EO in cludes two h...

Page 14: ...t in performance The South Bridge provides various integrated functions including the PCI to ISA bridge and support for UDMA100 security passwords and system protection Plug Play USBs power management...

Page 15: ...ed ATI video controller based on the Rage XL graphics chip Rage XL fully supports sideband addressing and AGP texturing This onboard graphics package can provide a bandwidth of up to 512 MB sec over a...

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Page 17: ...e if it was damaged in any way If the server itself shows damage you should file a damage claim with the carrier who delivered it Decide on a suitable location for the rack unit that will hold the Sup...

Page 18: ...xtending a component from the rack You should extend only one component at a time extending two or more simultaneously may cause the rack to become unstable Server Precautions Review the electrical an...

Page 19: ...should have received two rack rail assemblies with the SuperServer 6012L 6 Each of these assemblies consist of three sections an inner fixed chassis rail that secures to the 6012L 6 A and an outer fix...

Page 20: ...functions The first is to lock the server into place when installed and pushed fully into the rack which is its normal position Secondly these tabs also lock the server in place when fully extended f...

Page 21: ...with the front of the rack rails Slide the chassis rails into the rack rails keeping the pressure even on both sides you may have to depress the locking tabs when inserting See Figure 2 3 When the ser...

Page 22: ...ou are installing the SuperServer 6012L 6 into a Telco type rack follow the directions given on the previous pages for rack installation The only difference in the installation procedure will be the p...

Page 23: ...top cover from the chassis to gain full access to the inside of the server 2 Check the CPUs processors You should have one or two processors already installed into the system board Each processor nee...

Page 24: ...e sure all power and data cables are properly connected and not blocking the chassis airflow See Chapter 5 for details on cable connec tions Also check the air seals for damage The air seals are locat...

Page 25: ...Check the SCSI disk drives Depending upon your system s configuration your system may have one or more drives already installed If you need to install SCSI drives please refer to Chapter 6 4 Check th...

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Page 27: ...n off switch on the power supply 3 2 Control Panel Buttons There are three push button buttons located on the front of the chassis These are in order from left to right a reset button an MNI non maska...

Page 28: ...take l Overheat Indicates an overheat condition in the chassis This may be caused by cables obstructing the airflow in the system or the ambient room temperature being too warm You should also check t...

Page 29: ...Drive Carrier LEDs Each SCSI drive carrier has two LEDs l Green When illuminated the green LED on the front of a SCSI drive carrier indicates drive activity A connection to the SCSI SCA backplane enab...

Page 30: ...n incorrect CPU has been in stalled Yellow indicates standby power is present and green indicates a full power on state There are also two surface mounted debug LEDs designated LED1 and LED2 Each is c...

Page 31: ...emory modules and the CD ROM and floppy drives When disconnecting power you should first power down the system with the operating system and then unplug the power cords of all the power supply units i...

Page 32: ...electrical circuits or be pulled into a cooling fan l Remove any jewelry or metal objects from your body which are excellent metal conductors that can create short circuits and harm you if they come...

Page 33: ...omponents and printed circuit boards PCBs in their antistatic bags until ready for use l Touch a grounded metal object before removing the board from the antistatic bag l Do not let components or PCBs...

Page 34: ...perating Precautions Care must be taken to assure that the chassis cover is in place when the 6012L 6 is operating to assure proper cooling Out of warranty damage to the 6012L 6 system can occur if th...

Page 35: ...e that the size and weight of the mother board can cause it to bend if handled improperly which may result in dam age To prevent the motherboard from bending keep one hand under the center of the boar...

Page 36: ...place the motherboard on a conductive surface which can damage the BIOS battery and prevent the system from booting up 1 Lift the lever on the CPU socket Lift the lever completely or you will damage...

Page 37: ...s into their proper position When correctly installed the retention clips should click into place and the three black tabs on the CPU retention pieces should protrude fully through the corresponding h...

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Page 39: ...nnect to the pin 1 locations If you are configuring the sys tem keep the airflow in mind when routing the cables The following data cables with their motherboard connector locations noted should be co...

Page 40: ...sides of each header All JF2 wires have been bundled into single ribbon cable to simplify their connection Make sure the red wire plugs into pin 1 as marked on the board The other end connects to the...

Page 41: ...tep 1 DIMM Installation See Figure 5 5 1 Insert the desired number of DIMMs into the memory slots starting with Bank 1 DIMM 1A DIMM 1B The memory scheme is interleaved so you must install two modules...

Page 42: ...your thumbs to gently push each release tab outward to free the DIMM from the slot Memory Support The P4DLR only supports ECC registered PC1600 DDR 200 SDRAM memory An interleaved memory configuration...

Page 43: ...card see step 1 above Begin by swing ing the release tab on the I O backpanel shield out to the left for the PCI slot Insert the PCI card into the slot on the riser card pushing down with your thumbs...

Page 44: ...5 WOL COM2 BIOS South Bridge IO Bridge SW4 Speaker CHS FAN JBT1 Zero Channel RAID Socket IPMI J12 J18 J19 J20 IDE 1 IDE 2 FLOPPY JA2 CPU2 CHS FAN CPU2 FAN J21 SMBUS CPU1 FAN CPU1 CHS FAN OH CHS FAN JP...

Page 45: ...nel B Termination Open Terminated P2 PCI X Speed Settings See page 2 19 Connector Description ATX POWER Primary ATX Power Connector BANK0 BANK3 Memory RAM Slots COM1 COM2 COM1 COM2 Serial Port Connect...

Page 46: ...cated on pins 13 and 14 of JF1 Attach the IDE hard drive LED cable to these pins to display disk activity Refer to the table on the right for pin definitions IDE HDD L ED Pin Definitions JF1 Pin Numbe...

Page 47: ...ins 9 and 10 of JF1 Attach the NIC2 LED cable to dis play network activity Refer to the table on the right for pin defini tions NIC2 L ED Pin Definitions JF1 Pin Number 9 10 Definition 5V GND O verhea...

Page 48: ...wer on off the system This button can also be configured to function as a suspend button see the Power Button Mode setting in BIOS To turn off the power when set to suspend mode de press the button fo...

Page 49: ...chas sis and overheat fan headers des ignated CPU CHS and OH FAN re spectively See the table on the right for pin definitions Serial Ports The COM1 serial port is located under the parallel port see F...

Page 50: ...BIOS and also have a LAN card with a Wake on LAN connec tor and cable to use this feature Third Power Supply Fail Header The JP46 header with the proper cable attached can provide warn ing of power su...

Page 51: ...te connector here to inform you of a chassis intrusion condi tion IPMB Optional An IPMB IPMI Bus header is lo cated at J20 to support IPMI a server management standard Connect the appropriate cable fr...

Page 52: ...ion below for reading the LEDs is when viewed from the top front side of the chassis LED1 1 4 8 1 4 8 2 2 LED2 Reading the Debug LEDs W hen on each of the eight separate LEDs represent the value of th...

Page 53: ...Hz 1 4 GHz 1 5 GHz 1 6 GHz 1 7 GHz 1 8 GHz 1 9 GHz 2 0 GHz 2 1 GHz 2 2 GHz 2 4 GHz SW 4 ON ON ON ON ON ON SW 3 ON ON ON ON ON ON SW 1 ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON Processor Speed Selection DIP Sw itch 4 5...

Page 54: ...Disable Jum per Settings JP56 SpeakerEnable Disable To disable the onboard speaker remove the JP2 jumper See the table on the right for jumper set tings CMOS Clear JBT1 is used to clear CMOS In stead...

Page 55: ...e table on the right for pin definitions Jumper Position Open Closed Definition Disabled Enabled W atch Dog Enable Jum per Settings JP3 LAN1 Enable Disable Change the setting of jumper JP54 to enable...

Page 56: ...le or dis able the onboard SCSI The nor mal default position is enabled See the table on the right for jumper settings Jumper Position Pins 1 2 Pins 2 3 Definition Enabled Disabled SCSI Enable Disable...

Page 57: ...r Function 2 FDHDIN 4 Reserved 6 FDEDIN 8 Index 10 Motor Enable 12 Drive Select B 14 Drive Select A 16 Motor Enable 18 DIR 20 STEP 22 W rite Data 24 W rite Gate 26 Track 00 28 W rite Protect 30 Read D...

Page 58: ...26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Signal Names DB 12 DB 13 DB 14 DB 15 DB P1 DB 0 DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 DB 5 DB 6 DB 7 DB P GROUND GROUND TERMPW R TERMPW R RESERVED GROUND ATN GROUND BSY ACK RST MSG SEL C D RE...

Page 59: ...inserting this CD into your CDROM drive the display shown in Figure 5 8 should appear If this dis play does not appear click on the My Computer icon and then on the icon representing your CDROM drive...

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Page 61: ...e to any printed circuit boards PCBs it is important to handle them very carefully The following measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from ESD damage Precautions l Use a grounde...

Page 62: ...PCB printed circuit board Make sure the red wire plugs into pin 1 on both connectors Pull all excess cabling out of the airflow path The control panel LEDs inform you of system status See Chapter 3 S...

Page 63: ...power down the system before replacing a cooling fan removing the power cord is also recommended as a safety precaution Replacing System Cooling Fans 1 Removing a fan Remove the chassis cover Detach...

Page 64: ...I drives Proceed to the next step for instructions Note You must use standard 1 high 80 pin SCA SCSI drives in the SuperServer 6012L 6 CD ROM Floppy Disk Drive For installing removing the CD ROM or fl...

Page 65: ...stall a drive into the carrier with the printed circuit board side toward the carrier so that the mounting holes align with those in the carrier Secure the drive to the carrier with four screws as sho...

Page 66: ...removal The SCSI drives are hot swap units meaning that they can be installed and removed while the system is running To remove a SCSI drive first push the colored release button located beside the dr...

Page 67: ...top cover and at the same time push the cover away from you until it stops You can then lift the top cover from the chassis to gain full access to the inside of the server With the chassis cover remo...

Page 68: ...of the chassis near the front and push the chassis top rearward about one inch To remove the failed power unit push the beige colored release tab to the right and then carefully lift the unit up about...

Page 69: ...Chapter 6 Advanced Chassis Setup 6 9 Figure 6 5 Removing Replacing the Power Supply...

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Page 71: ...e BIOS ROM enabling it to retain the system parameters Each time the computer is powered on the computer is then configured with the values stored in the BIOS ROM by the system BIOS which gains contro...

Page 72: ...ive AMIBIOS supports PC Health Monitoring chips When a failure occurs in a monitored activity AMIBIOS can sound an alarm and display a message The PC Health Monitoring chips monitor CPU temperature Ch...

Page 73: ...ow to navigate through the menus Note Items displayed in gray are preset and cannot be selected Items with a blue arrow are commands not options i e Discard Changes The Main BIOS Setup Menu Press the...

Page 74: ...O Configuration to go to the sub screen for that item Advanced BIOS Setup options are displayed by highlighting the option using the arrow keys All Advanced BIOS Setup options are described in this se...

Page 75: ...n specifies the base I O port address of serial port 2 The settings for this item include Disabled 2F8 3E8 and 2E8 Serial Port 2 IRQ This option specifies the Interrupt Request address of serial port...

Page 76: ...option specifies the parallel port mode The settings for this item include Normal Bi directional EPP and ECP ECP Mode DMA Channel This option allows the user to set the setting for the ECP Mode of th...

Page 77: ...method of addressing data on a disk drive In LBA mode the maximum drive capac ity is 137 GB The settings are Disabled and Auto Select Disabled to disable LBA mode Select Auto to enable LBA mode if yo...

Page 78: ...ct UDMA0 trhough UDMA4 to set Ultra DMA0 through Ultra DMA4 S M A R T S M A R T stands for Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology a feature that can help predict impending drive failures Th...

Page 79: ...for the Primary IDE Master Hard Disk Write Protect This item allows the user to prevent the hard disk from being overwritten The options are Enabled or Disabled Enabled allows the drive to be used nor...

Page 80: ...3 1 2 1 44 MB 3 1 2 and 2 88 MB 3 1 2 The Enabled setting is effective only if the device is accessed through BIOS Floppy Drive Seek Use this option to Enable or Disable the floppy seek routine on boo...

Page 81: ...second Under normal opera tions this setting should not be changed Slow This sets the rate the computer repeats a key to under 8 times per second System Keyboard This option is to let the system know...

Page 82: ...tion is for enabling or disabling the internal CPU L1 cache Settings include Disabled Write Thru Write Back and Reserved Disabled This option prevents the system from using the internal CPU L1 cache T...

Page 83: ...following pages The screen is shown below ECC Event Logging This option Enables or Disables the logging of ECC events The events logged by AMIBIOS are post errors such as a bad BIOS floppy errors or h...

Page 84: ...e Always On to automatically start up the system when power is reapplied Always Off means you must push the main power button to restart the system after power is restored System Health Monitor The BI...

Page 85: ...ove address are copied shadowed from ROM to RAM BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced Chipset PCIPnP Power Boot Security Exit C000 16k Shadow Cached WP C400 16k Shadow Cached WP C800 16k Shadow Disabled CC...

Page 86: ...Memory Writing Posting The settings are Enabled and Disabled Scrubbing Enable The settings are Enabled and Disabled Scrubbing writes corrected ECC data back into memory Memory Timing Control Determin...

Page 87: ...tes Watchdog is a feature that can reboot the system if a software application hangs and freezes operations BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced Chipset PCIPnP Power Boot Security Exit Plug Play O S Reset...

Page 88: ...nd 248 PCI clocks Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA This option lets you allocate an interrupt request IRQ to the PCI VGA adapter card if used The settings are Yes and No Palette Snooping When enabled this opti...

Page 89: ...ings are Auto Enabled and Disabled ARMD Emulation Type This settings for this option are Hard Disk Auto and Floppy BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Advanced Chipset PCIPnP Power Boot Security Exit ACPI Aware O...

Page 90: ...isplay inactivity has expired The settings include Disabled Standby Suspend and Sleep Suspend Timeout This option specifies the length of hard disk inactivity time that should expire before entering t...

Page 91: ...the 1st Boot Device are Removable Device ATAPI CDROM Hard Drive Onboard LAN2 Option ROM and IBA 4 0 1 9 Slot 0102 2nd Boot Device The settings for the 2nd Boot Device are Removable Device ATAPI CDROM...

Page 92: ...for the 5th Boot Device are Removable Device ATAPI CDROM Hard Drive Onboard LAN2 Option ROM and IBA 4 0 1 9 Slot 0102 Hard Disk Drives Use this screen to view the boot sequency of hard drives that hav...

Page 93: ...y If you select password support you are prompted for a 1 6 character password Type the password on the keyboard The password does not appear on the screen when typed Make sure you write it down If yo...

Page 94: ...this option to clear the user password so that it is not required to be entered when the system boots up Boot Sector Virus Protection This option allows you to enable or disable a virus detection prog...

Page 95: ...up wi saving the changes Select Screen Select Item Enter Go to Sub Scr F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit V02 03 C Copyright 1985 2000 American Megatrends Inc Exit Saving Changes Highlighting...

Page 96: ...and system features Load Failsafe Defaults Highlighting this setting and then pressing Enter provides the safest set of parameters for the system Use them if the system is behaving errati cally Disca...

Page 97: ...usually communicated through a series of audible beeps The numbers on the fatal error list on the following page correspond to the number of beeps for the corresponding error All errors listed with th...

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Page 99: ...he initialization code checksum will be verified D1h Initializing the DMA controller performing the keyboard controller BAT test starting memory refresh and entering 4 GB flat mode next D3h Starting m...

Page 100: ...FAT to find the clusters occupied by the AMIBOOT ROM file F3h Next reading the AMIBOOT ROM file cluster by cluster F4h The AMIBOOT ROM file is not the correct size F5h Next disabling internal cache me...

Page 101: ...s 1 and 2 and interrupt controllers 1 and 2 13h Thevideodisplayhasbeendisabled PortBhasbeeninitialized Next initializing the chipset 14h The 8254 timer test will begin next 19h The 8254 timer test is...

Page 102: ...checking next 34h Video display checking is over Setting the display mode next 37h The display mode is set Displaying the power on message next 38h Initializing the bus input IPL general devices next...

Page 103: ...Fh The memory size display has started The display is updated during the memory test Performing the sequential and random memory test next 50h The memory below 1 MB has been tested and initialized Adj...

Page 104: ...mpleted Checking for a locked key next 84h Locked key checking is over Checking for a memory size mismatch with CMOS RAM data next 85h The memory size check is done Displaying a soft error and checkin...

Page 105: ...er the Coprocessor test next 9Eh Initialization after the Coprocessor test is complete Checking the extended keyboard keyboard ID and Num Lock key next Issuing the keyboard ID command next A2h Display...

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Page 107: ...acity Four 184 pin 25 degree DDR DIMM sockets supporting up to 8 GB of registered ECC PC1600 DDR SDRAM Note Interleaved memory requires memory to be installed two at a time PC2100 memory modules are s...

Page 108: ...ironment Operating Temperature Range 0 to 35 degrees C Humidity Range 5 90 non condensing Safety Regulations UL 1950 CUL TUV EMI FCC part 15 CISPR 22 EN 55022 Form Factor P4DLR motherboard Extended AT...