Gateway ALR 8300 User Manual

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60 Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Gateway ALR 8300 Server

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Large Disk Access Mode: options are

DOS

and

Other

. Select

DOS

if you use DOS or one of the DOS-based operating systems.

Select

Other

if you use another operating system such as UNIX. A

large disk is considered one that has more than 1024 cylinders, 16
heads, or 63 tracks per sector.

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Resource Configuration opens the resource configuration screen.
Details of this screen are provided in the section, “Resource
configuration screen” on page 61.

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Peripheral Configuration opens the peripheral configuration
screen. Details of this screen are provided in the section,
“Peripheral configuration screen” on page 64.

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Keyboard Features opens the keyboard configuration screen.
Details of this screen are provided in the section “Keyboard
features screen” on page 65.

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Cache Memory opens the cache memory configuration screen.
Details of this screen are provided in the section “Cache memory
screen” on page 66.

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Advanced Chipset Control opens the advanced chipset control
screen which contains a single field. The field is

ECC Config

,

which allows you to set the extent of error checking and correction
that the system uses. The options for this field are

Disabled, EC,

ECC,

and

ECC Scrub.

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Embedded PCI SCSI: Channel A enabling this field turns on
channel A of the integrated SCSI adapter. Set the Scan First option
if booting from a hard disk and the Scan Last option if booting
from a CD-ROM. The options are

Enabled

and

Disabled

.

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Embedded PCI SCSI: Channel B enabling this field turns on
channel B of the integrated SCSI adapter. Set the Scan First option
if booting from a hard disk and the Scan Last option if booting
from a CD-ROM. The options are

Enabled

and

Disabled

.

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Embedded PCI NIC: enabling this field turns on the integrated
network interface controller. The options are

Enabled

and

Disabled

.

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SHM Address: defines the system hardware manager (SHM)
address. The options are 1 through 7.

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