PCM Status: CONFIRMED

PC Manufacturer: DELL COMPUTER CORP

Model: DELL POWEREDGE 4400/733 (PERC2/DC RAID 10)

System Type: SERVER

Equivalent Models: NONE

Testkit Version: V4.5

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

OS/2 FixPacks Applied: FIXPAK 42 DRIVERS AND MPTS FIXPAK W08610

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 V4.5. 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 (http://www-4.ibm.com/software/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________________NOT RUN
PCM Base Test________JFS________________NOT RUN
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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.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:

This OS/2 Certification used the same install diskettes that were used on the Dell PowerEdge 2400 when it was re-certified with the Dell PERC 2/SC single channel batteryless RAID card. Therefore, the same FixPak 42 basedev drivers were used on the installation diskettes. The same AIC7870.ADD driver and OS2CDROM.DMD driver were also used; the AIC7870.ADD came from the Adaptec web site and is an older driver since the newer ones are too large to easily fit on the diskette #1, plus they also often fail on bootup giving a message such as 'Internal Processing Error'. The OS2CDROM.DMD used is one which IBM fixed so that multi-session writes can be properly read (used on NEC SCSI CDROM drives only and is not required on IDE).

The video choice was Super VGA instead of the autodetect ATI choice since the video driver on the CD media for OS/2 Warp Server is out of date for the ATI video chip on the motherboard.

The NIC driver initially chosen was the 3Com Etherlink II and that driver was REM'd out of the config.sys so that after the OS was installed, we could install the correct Intel driver and change to it. Sometimes if you don't do this you can't remove the old Intel drivers.

The HPFS386.INI file was also changed on about the third reboot since this version miscalculates the amount of memory to use for the cachesize variable. This is due to the fact it detects a dual CPU capable machine and it's a well known 'feature' of this version. Otherwise the system would not reboot claiming it is out of memory. The other symptom encountered sometimes is continuous disk thrashing when opening any OS/2 windows if it reboots. These are known problems in this version of OS/2; the SMP version does not do this. Set it to something normal like 1/4 of real system memory. We used 64000 for 64MB on this 1024MB system since the integers are multiples of 1K.

This OS/2 Certification used the same Dell PERC2/DC 64bit PCI dual channel RAID card as many other Dell PowerEdge Server Certifications. It also uses the same PEDGE2DC.ADD OS/2 driver, the same PEDGE2DC.EXE OS/2 array utility and the same MONITOR.CMD file to launch the same PEDGEMON.EXE array monitor program that creates pop up alerts to Netfinity and sends alerts to the FFST Log as well as the OS/2 screen.

The onboard Intel Etherexpress PRO PCI Ethernet network function uses the same network driver as has been used with the Intel Etherexpress PRO100+ Server Adapter that was also tested in this unit previously. The driver files came from the Dell distributed 'Intel Pro/100+ LAN Adapter Configuration and Drivers Diskette SW Release 2.5'. Newer drivers from the Intel web site should work as well.

The RAID test in the OS/2 Certification test software does not recognize this controller so
the same method was used to test it that we have done since getting directions from IBM on
how they tested our original PERC controller on the Dell PE 2200 and PE 4200. We simply
simulate a drive failure during copy process and see if it rebuilds and reboots- but we also
check our OS/2 array manager to see if it detects the problem, see if the alarm goes off and
also if the monitor program notifies on-screen and sends alerts- and this all works great.

On this Dell PowerEdge 4400 several test xcopy and readrite.exe programs ran to generate
data transfers on the hard drives and then one of the drives in the RAID 10 array was pulled
out. This caused an alarm to sound on the PERC2/DC which we then silenced with the
OS/2 array manager software. That program also detected the degredation of the array and
the status of the drive showed 'failed'.

When we reinserted the drive, a rescan with the array manager program showed the status
had already changed to 'rebuild' and the rebuild changes were reflected also in the pedgemon
output via percentage numbers to the screen and array status change alerts were sent and
showed up in the Netfinity alert popup. When this completed the system was shutdown and
a reboot was done plus other wam and cold reboots. This was all done BEFORE the OS/2
Certification testing was started so the system completed all tests after an array rebuild
operation. This RAID failure/rebuild test procedure was used in both test phases-
Domain Controller and Additional Server.

Machine Configuration (machine.txt):

System Manufacturer___________DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION
System Model Name_____________DELL POWEREDGE 4400/733 (PERC2/DC RAID 10)
Processor-Mhz_________________733
Processor on__________________Planar
BUS Type______________________
LocalBUS Type_________________PCI
Symetric Multi-Processor______NO
Number of Processors__________1
.PSD Filename_________________
Bios Manufacturer_____________DELL
BIOS Version__________________A04
BIOS Date_____________________
Installed Memory MB___________1GB
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______________RAGE IIC PRO
Video Memory Size_____________>4MB
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_____________466
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_______Dual channel 64bit PERC2/DC
Disk Controller 1 on__________PCI Card
Disk Controller 2 Mfr_________ADAPTEC
Disk Controller 2 Model_______7880 Ultra/Wide
Disk Controller 2 on__________Planar
Disk Drive 1 Mfr______________QUANTUM
Disk Drive 1 Model____________QM318000TD SCA
Disk Drive 1 Size_____________17278MB
Disk Drive 1 Number installed_2
Disk Drive 1 type_____________SCSI
Disk Drive 2 Mfr______________SEAGATE
Disk Drive 2 Model____________ST118202LC
Disk Drive 2 Size_____________17278MB
Disk Drive 2 Number installed_2
Disk Drive 2 type_____________SCSI
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_____ETHEREXPRESS PRO PCI (onboard NIC)
Network Card 1 is_____________Ethernet
Network Card 1 type___________Planar
Network Card 1 .NIF Name______E100BEO2.NIF
Network Card 1 .NIF Date______11-11-97
Network Card 1 .OS2 Name______E100B.OS2
Network Card 1 .OS2 Date______5-15-98
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

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