Appendix A Linux technical notes .................................................................................................................... 72
System RAM ......................................................................................................................................................... 72
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................... 72
Network cards ...................................................................................................................................................... 73
Hyper-Threading Technology .............................................................................................................................. 73
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations ............................................................................................................................. 73
Appendix B Conguring RAID devices ............................................................................................................... 75
RAID hard drive maximum and associated storage controller options .............................................................. 76
Supported RAID congurations ........................................................................................................................... 76
Conguring Intel SATA RAID ................................................................................................................................. 76
Conguring the system BIOS to enable embedded SATA RAID functionality ................................... 77
Option ROM Launch Policy set to All Legacy ..................................................................................... 77
Option ROM Launch Policy set to All UEFI or All UEFI Except Video .................................................. 78
Conguring RAID volumes in Legacy Option ROM ............................................................................ 78
Conguring RAID volumes in UEFI 3rd Party Option ROM ................................................................................... 78
Conguring SATA RAID in Windows ..................................................................................................................... 79
Software RAID solution ........................................................................................................................................ 79
Software RAID considerations .......................................................................................................... 79
Performance considerations ............................................................................................................. 80
Conguring software RAID ................................................................................................................ 80
Appendix C System board designators ............................................................................................................. 81
Index ............................................................................................................................................................. 83
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