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Avid
®
Adrenaline
™
and Avid Mojo
™
Configuration Guidelines
for the HP xw8000 Workstation
The following describes the configuration requirements for Avid Adrenaline and Avid Mojo on
the HP xw8000 Workstation:
• HP
™
xw8000 Workstation, 2.8 GHz Intel
®
Xeon
™
. Dual processor required for Avid
Adrenaline.
• NVIDIA
®
Quadro
®
4 980 XGL graphics card
• 40GB or larger IDE Boot Drive
• 1GB memory minimum
• ATTO 3300 and 3305 Fibre Channel host adapters
• Alacritech
®
Gb Ethernet card if desired for LANshare EX
• SCSI – The two integrated SCSI channels on the HP xw8000 workstation are supported.
They are from the Ultra 320 SCSI controller on the system board. The HP xw8000
external SCSI expansion kit (Avid P/N 0010-06332-01 or HP P/N AA857A) must be
installed to obtain access to these two channels at the rear of the system.
• FireWire – either one of the two integrated FireWire connections on the HP xw8000
system or a FireWire PCI board can be used for connecting the Avid Adrenaline or Avid
Mojo to the system. However, specific configuration rules must be followed.
Avid has qualified the integrated FireWire ports in the HP xw8000 for connection to
Avid Adrenaline or Avid Mojo. However, if it is desired to use the integrated Gbit
Ethernet for connection to Avid Unity
LANshare EX, then a 1394 add-in card must be
installed into a PCI-X slot for connection to the Avid Adrenaline or Avid Mojo (see slot
configurations for the HP xw8000 Workstation, below). To support this, Avid has
qualified the ADS PYRO PCI 64 (PYRO part number API-311) and the SIIG 1394 3-Port
PCI i/e, part #NN-440012 PCI FireWire cards for use with the HP xw8000 workstation.
Only universal PCI cards (can use 3.3v) may be installed in PCI-X slots.
Slot Configurations for the HP xw8000 Workstation
The HP xw8000 workstation has three separate PCI bus segments. This allows for placement of
PCI boards into specific PCI bus segments in the interest of optimizing bus utilization and
performance. However, integrated devices such as the FireWire, Gb Ethernet, and SCSI
controllers are also connected to particular PCI segments and can affect the bandwidth available
to add-in cards in those segments.
The following illustration, table, and information following the table provides an explanation of
what each PCI segment is, which PCI slots are contained in each PCI segment, and how the
segments are affected by the other connections on the system.
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