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PowerEdge 6650 PCI Device Questions (LNKS CHECKED 11/21/2006)
1. What PCI Audio, Video, USB, or Firewire controller cards will work with my system?
2. What Dell supported PCI cards will work with my system?
3. What are my system's PCI specifications?
1. What PCI audio, video, USB, or Firewire controller cards will work with my system?
Officially, Dell has not validated or tested the installation or configuration of any PCI Audio, Video, USB, Firewire, or Parallel/Serial cards with the PowerEdge 6650 (or, for that matter, with most of the PowerEdge line of servers), and therefore has limited support available for such cards.
PowerEdge 6650 servers are designed purely with server functionality in mind, and are not intended to function in a similar fashion to workstation or desktop systems.
For the purposes of file server functionality, however, we have validated and tested certain SCSI and RAID controller cards as well as network controller cards and can provide technical assistance with the configuration and usage of such cards.
2. What Dell supported PCI cards will work with my system?
Below is a list of validated PCI cards for the PowerEdge 6650 system, preceded by their Dell part numbers.
Click on the controller card to be directed to documentation for that card:
Scsi / Raid Controllers:
340-2192 Adaptec AHA-39160 U160 SCSI Controller Card
340-2549 LSI Logic PERC3-DC (Dual Channel) RAID Controller Card
340-2548 LSI Logic PERC3-QC (Dual Channel) RAID Controller Card
341-9622 LSI Logic PERC4-DC (Dual Channel) RAID Controller Card (External Only)
Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapters:
340-7364 QLogic QLA 2200 (64-bit PCI to Fibre Channel copper media)
Network Interface Cards:
430-0542 Intel PRO 100s 10/100 with IPSEC Network Interface Card
420-4026 Intel Intel Pro 1000MT 10/100/1000 (copper) Network Interface Card
420-4029 Intel Intel Pro 1000MF 10/100/1000 (fiber) Network Interface Card
430-0562 Intel Intel Pro 1000MT 10/100/1000 (Dual Port copper) Network Interface Card
4R672 Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000 (copper) Network Interface Card
Remote Access Card
313-0870 Dell Remote Assistant Card (DRAC) III W/O MODEM
313-0233 Universal AC Adapter kit for DRAC III
310-0654 VT100 Cable Kit
Please note that the contents of the above part numbers are subject to change over time, as is availability of those parts.
We recommend contacting our Spare Parts department at 1-800-372-3355 for pricing, availability, and purchasing of all the above parts.
3. What are my system's PCI specifications?
The PowerEdge 6650 provides 7 Hot-Plug capable 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots each capable of a 800MB/s peak bandwidth. All PCI-X slots are 3V-signaling environment compatible and will accept either 3V PCI and PCI-X cards or Universal PCI cards.
The system also includes one 32-bit/33Mhz PCI slot which is a 5V-signaling environment and will accept either 5V PCI or Universal PCI cards. This slot is specifically included for compatibility with the Dell Remote Assistant Card (DRAC) III.
No ISA slots are provided on the PowerEdge 6650 system.
The 32-bit/33Mhz slot is on the primary (compatibility) PCI bus (bus 0). The 64-bit/100Mhz slots are on peer PCI-X busses 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. There are two slots on bus 2 and 3 and one slot each on 4, 5 and 6 of these PCI bus segments.
Expansion-Card Installation Guidelines
Use the following guideline when installing expansion cards:
- If you are installing a remote access card, it must be installed in slot 1. Slot 1 operates at 33 MHz.
- RAID controller cards for internal drives must be installed in expansion slots 2 or 3.
- You can install expansion cards of different operating speeds on the same bus; however, all cards on the same bus will operate at the speed of the slowest card on that bus. For example, if one card on the bus has an operating speed of 66 MHz and the other card has an operating speed of 100 MHz, the bus will operate only at 66 MHz.
- The slots will only operate in PCI-X mode if populated exclusively by PCI-X cards.
- To optimize performance, install only one expansion card on a single PCI bus. Otherwise, install only cards of the same operating speed on the same PCI bus.
- If you are replacing an expansion card with a card of a slower operating speed, you must power down the system to install the replacement card.
- If the expansion card you are installing is of a slower operating speed than the cards already installed on the same PCI bus, you must power down all expansion slots on that bus. This action ensures that all expansion cards on that bus power up at the same operating speed. Otherwise, you can install the expansion card in an expansion slot that is alone on a PCI bus or on a PCI bus with cards of the same or slower operating speeds.
- Certain operating systems support only "hot-replace," in which a hot-pluggable expansion card is replaced with its exact equivalent, using the same PCI resources.
- If you are hot-plugging a NIC expansion card, you must either hot-plug the NIC card in an expansion slot that is alone on a PCI bus or on a PCI bus with no card other than another NIC.
- If you have trouble hot-plugging a particular expansion card, turn off your system before installing the card. If the problem persists, obtain technical assistance.
PCI-X Technology
PCI-X is an extension of the widely accepted PCI standard for data transfer between CPUs and I/O peripherals and is becoming widely used by manufacturers for speeding the flow of data within servers, storage area networks and network switches.
Additional information on the new PCI and PCI-X standards can be found at various Internet sites through the use of a search engines such as:
www.Google.com
Ask Jeeves
AllTheWeb.com
Yahoo
While the following link is not officially supported or endorsed by Dell, it does offer more detailed information as to the PCI design change:
PCI Technology Overview
Message Edited by DELL-FAQ on 11-21-2006 02:21 PM
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