ASUSTek AP1700-S5
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Server
Test Completed: 2005-04-28

ASUSTek AP1700-S5 is awarded the AppLabs Linux Compatibility mark.

AppLabs' www.Linux-Tested.com compatibility testing of this system showed the following distributions compatible with the ASUSTek AP1700-S5:

SuSE 8.1

RedHat 9.0

United Linux 1.0

Mandrake 9.1

This document presents the compatibility testing results.

System Configuration

The following table defines the system configuration tested by AppLabs.

System Configuration as Tested
Company	ASUSTek Computer Inc.
Model	ASUSTek AP1700-S5
BIOS Revision	2002
Main Board and Chipset	ServerWork CMIE-LE
Processor(s)	Two (2) Intel® P4 Xeon® 2.4GHz
RAM	512DDR ECC
HBA	On-board LSI® 53C1030
Motherboard Features and Capabilities	Supports Intel® Xeon® processor with Hyper-threading capacity Maximum memory capacity: 12GHz Supports registered DDR DRAM .
Display Adapter	On-board ATI® Rage XL
Serial Ports	Two (2) 16550 compatible
Parallel Ports	One (1) Enhanced Bi-directional
USB Ports	Two (2) USB 2
I/O Ports and buses	Six (6) PCI Slots;
Host Bus Adapter	On-board LSI® 53C1030
Network Interface	On-Board Intel® 8254GC / Intel® 82551QM
Audio Chipset / Sound Card	NA
Optical Drive	ASUS; IDE CDROM 50X
Hard Drive	SCSI Quantium 18.2S TY18L101
Floppy Drive	Standard 1.44MB
Keyboard	Standard 101 Keyboard
Pointing Device	Logitech® PS/2 Mouse
Miscellaneous Hardware

Testing Results

The following table defines the hardware as tested in this system by AppLabs, and provides the pass/fail results.

Tests and determinations are available for reference in ASCII format for immediate viewing.

Test Comment Result
Installation Testing
CD-ROM Installation PASSED
NFS/FTP Installation PASSED
Device Auto Probing PASSED
Base System Testing
Kernel Compatibility PASSED
GRUB/LILO Compatibility PASSED
Heavy I/O Test PASSED
Network Test PASSED
Network Load Test (Not required on workstation test) PASSED
SMP Test (Only required multiprocessor systems) PASSED
Display Adapter
Console Compatibility PASSED
X Server Compatibility PASSED
Stand Alone Monitor (Laptop Test Only) NA
Simultaneous Display CRT/LCD (Laptop Test Only) NA
Sound Adapter
Basic Sound Compatibility NA
Advanced Sound Availibility NA
Advanced Sound Compatibility NA
Serial Ports
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Throughput Testing PASSED
Parallel Ports
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Mouse
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Keyboard
Compatibility Testing PASSED

Notes and Observations:

Concerning the SuSE distribution testing, if ACPI is turned on in the kernel, the dual port adapters will not work. This is due to a limitation in ACPI. Currently, this affects all new versions of SuSE and the United Linux family. For more information on this subject please refer to: http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/acpi.html Due to the reasons mentioned above, SuSE Linux 8.1 can use acpi=off kernel parameters to disable the ACPI code then enable dual port adapters on this server.

As some additional notes and information concerning the acpi=off parameter, this disables the whole ACPI system. This may prove very useful, for example, if your computer does not support ACPI or if you think the ACPI implementation might cause some problems.

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