PCM Status: CONFIRMED

PC Manufacturer: DELL COMPUTER CORP

Model: DELL POWEREDGE 6300/400 (4 CPU)

System Type: SERVER

Equivalent Models: NONE

Testkit Version: V4.1

OS/2 Product Tested: OS/2 WARP SERVER ADVANCED SMP V4

OS/2 FixPacks Applied: FIXPAK 38 & 40, MPTS FIXPAK W08610, PLUS LAN DISTANCE IP08606

Test results received by the IBM OS2 Compatiblity Program Office for the system model above showed
All Tests Pass for OS/2 Hardware Compatibility Testkit Version V4.1. This system model, as tested by
the Manufacturer and identified in the Machine Configuration file (machine.txt) submitted by the
Manufacturer, is hereby added to the OS/2 Hardware Compatibility List on the Web. Please allow two
weeks for posting (www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/hw-cert/pcm/pcm_syst.htm).

Pursuant to the terms of the OS/2 Compatibility Testkit License Agreement, IBM discloses the Test
Report attached. A signed original of the OS/2 Tested and Approved for LAN Systems Logo License
Agreement must be submitted to the OS/2 Compatibility Program Office for use of the logo by the
Manufacturer in any product promotions. For questions regarding these test results or the compatibility
of systems or model configurations not provided herein, contact the Manufacturer per information
provided in the attached Test Report.

Test Report

OS/2 Compatibility Test Results Summary (pcmscore.txt):

PCM Base Test________SNF001_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNF002_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNF006_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNF007_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNFBPB_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNFREXX____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNFMVDM____________PASS
PCM Base Test________SNFWIN_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________STRESS_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________KBD________________PASS
PCM Base Test________FVTDISK____________PASS
PCM Base Test________FORMAT_____________PASS
PCM Base Test________TIMERDD____________PASS
PCM Base Test________PRINTDD____________PASS
PCM Base Test________MMPM2______________PASS
PCM Base Test________APM________________NOT RUN
PCM Base Test________PCMCIA_____________NOT RUN
PCM Base Test________SMP________________PASS
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PCM LAN Domain_______ITLLS56.S01________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLLS56.R01________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLLS56.R02________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLMSG.D01_________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLMSG.R01_________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLFTP02.R02_______PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLTCP01.D01_______PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLDUMP.D01________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLPSNS.D01________PASS
PCM LAN Domain_______ITLRAID.D01________NOT RUN
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PCM LAN Server_______ITLLS57.D01________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLLS57.R01________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLLS57.R02________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLFTP01.R01_______PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLALERT.S01_______PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLLD.R02__________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______SYSINFO.RPT________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01D01.HST________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01D01.INV________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01S01.HST________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01S01.INV________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01R01.HST________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01R01.INV________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01R02.HST________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______IT01R02.INV________PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLPSF00.S01_______PASS
PCM LAN Server_______ITLSV06.S01________PASS

Additional Configuration Information:

*NOTE:*
This certification is with the Dell Dual Channel PERC using Firmware UC77 Dell
Part Number 4389D; older versions of this same controller CARD are not usable
on the PE 6300 PowerEdge Servers. The same PEDGE.ADD driver dated 5-13-97 was used as on previous PowerEdge Servers being OS/2 Certified.

Installation/Configuration Notes:

1) Required: Place the Dell Dual Channel PERC in one of the four 64 BIT PCI BUS Slots.
2) Card Placements: PERC at 64 BIT PCI slot #4, NIC at 64 BIT PCI slot #6.
3) RAID Level Used: three physical drivers making one logical RAID 5 drive.
4) CMOS- Changed serial ports from AUTO to COM1 and COM2 respectively; turned BOTH Primary onboard PCI SCSI OFF; booted from slot devices High to Low but not required; rebooted directly to review and check resources used in Resource Configuration Utility.
5) RCU- Verified no interrupt sharing between PERC, NIC and secondary onboard PCI SCSI; saved and turned power off when counting memory; (changes to RCU require a cold-boot).
6) On 2nd install diskette, changed SCSI drivers to use those from FixPak 38; because PCI BUS is faster than older systems, the OS/2 CD's drivers are out of date; new ones are required to enable CDROM data transfers to copy all files and copy correctly to hard drive: OS2DASD.DMD, AIC7870.ADD, OS2CDROM.DMD, CDFS.IFS, OS2SCSI.DMD and HPFS.IFS; TESTCFG.SYS from FixPak 38 was also used on the install diskette. During AND after the installation, all these drivers were confirmed and/or re-copied so that the system used only NEW drivers during the installation and prior to installing FixPaks.
7) Chose SuperVGA for video and accepted the incorrect Ethernet driver OS/2 chose, then
changed driver to Intel Pro100+ **AFTER** OS/2 was installed and booted from hard drive. Intel driver diskette is labeled version 2.55 from www.intel.com (this is not the driver version).
8) Domain Controller: Once OS/LAN Server connections tested: Added FixPak- FP 38; tested warm/cold boot; Next added FixPak- MPTS WO8610 for test suite stability and tested warm/cold boot. Tested RAID failure/recover procedure after cert tests.
9) Additional Server: Once Os/LAN Server connections tested: Added FixPak WO8610 for test suite stability. Added FixPak 38 later after base tests passed. For stability and for working towards Y2K compliancy, it is strongly urged that customers add FixPak 38 or higher. FixPak 40 and LAN Distance IP08606 were applied when LAN Distance failed intermitently but a different physical motherboard resolved that, so they may not have been needed. Tested RAID failure/recover procedure again after cert tests.
10) Installed M64OS2.ZIP ATI high resolution video driver after all FixPaks; set video to 1024 by 768 by 64K colors; this ATI OS/2 AGP video driver is available on request from Dell Server Support.
11) The Dell PERC is not picked up by the OS/2 Certification utility as a full RAID capable controller. The Dell PERC was tested for RAID 5 rebuild and reboot by pulling one drive out while doing disk activity; the drive was then re-inserted after PEDGEMON declared a failure; the DELLCONF.EXE array utility was run to check drive status and the first drive was labeled FAIL just as PEDGEMON had declared; the utility was used to silence the alarm as the rebuild started automatically. Rebuild completed and the system was then warm and cold booted to test RAID 5 recovery which worked with no errors. The PERC driver and utilties are included inside OS2PERC.ZIP and can be obtained at www.dell.com in the "File Library" area. One other utility is PERCSNMP.EXE which uses TCP/IP to send out SNMP alerts. The PEDGEMON.EXE array monitoring utility has been enhanced to not only report to FFST Log but also to send alerts to Netfinity/Systemview. These other PERC utilities are in another ZIP file and can be requested fro
m Dell's NOS Support Group. They are also on the Dell Server Assistant CD.
12) One, two and four CPU's were tested initially; once stable, all four CPU's were used
during certification testing. Although /PREC=ILD might have been necessary on the OS2APIC.PSD line in the config.sys, no switches were needed.

Machine Configuration (machine.txt):

System Manufacturer___________DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION
System Model Name_____________DELL POWEREDGE 6300/400 (4 CPU)
Processor-Mhz_________________400
Processor on__________________Planar
BUS Type______________________
LocalBUS Type_________________PCI
Symetric Multi-Processor______YES
Number of Processors__________4
.PSD Filename_________________OS2APIC.PSD
Bios Manufacturer_____________DELL
BIOS Version__________________A05
BIOS Date_____________________
Installed Memory MB___________512MB
APM Support___________________NO
PCMCIA Support________________NO
Number PCMCIA Slots___________
MOUSE Mini-Serial-Other_______Mini-Din
MOUSE Other type______________
Video Chip Manufacturer_______ATI
Video Chip Model______________3D RAGE PRO AGP
Video Memory Size_____________2MB
Video Chip on_________________Video on Planar
Video Card Manufacturer_______
Video Card Model______________
Video Card Type_______________
CDROM Drive___________________YES
CDROM Regular_________________Regular
CDROM Streaming able__________
CDROM Drive Manufacturer______NEC
CDROM Drive Model_____________CDR-1910A 14/32 (465)
CDROM Connected to____________SCSI
Other connection type_________
Sound Support_________________NO
Sound Card Manufacturer_______
Sound Card Model______________
Disk Controller 1 Mfr_________Dell
Disk Controller 1 Model_______PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC)
Disk Controller 1 on__________PCI Card
Disk Controller 2 Mfr_________Adaptec
Disk Controller 2 Model_______AIC-7860 (Secondary onboard PCI SCSI)
Disk Controller 2 on__________Planar
Disk Drive 1 Mfr______________Seagate
Disk Drive 1 Model____________ST118202LC, Rev 0004
Disk Drive 1 Size_____________17.3GB
Disk Drive 1 Number installed_3
Disk Drive 1 type_____________SCSI
Disk Drive 2 Mfr______________
Disk Drive 2 Model____________
Disk Drive 2 Size_____________
Disk Drive 2 Number installed_
Disk Drive 2 type_____________
Disk Drive 3 Mfr______________
Disk Drive 3 Model____________
Disk Drive 3 Size_____________
Disk Drive 3 Number installed_
Disk Drive 3 type_____________
Network Card 1 Manufacturer___Intel
Network Card 1 Model/Name_____Pro100+
Network Card 1 is_____________Ethernet
Network Card 1 type___________PCI Card
Network Card 1 .NIF Name______E100BEO2.NIF
Network Card 1 .NIF Date______09-23-98
Network Card 1 .OS2 Name______E100B.OS2
Network Card 1 .OS2 Date______12-03-98
Network Card 1 Driver From____Other
Network Card 2 Manufacturer___
Network Card 2 Model/Name_____
Network Card 2 is_____________
Network Card 2 type___________
Network Card 2 .NIF Name______
Network Card 2 .NIF Date______
Network Card 2 .OS2 Name______
Network Card 2 .OS2 Date______
Network Card 2 Driver From____

Manufacturer Contact Information

Dell Server Support, 1-800-967-1068