NEC A1160 - Manual (Page 34)

Peripherals
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Figure 2-12 Peripherals on the Drive Tray
Floppy disk drive support, if required, can be supplied through a floppy disk drive
attached to the USB port. The BIOS also supports booting the system from any device
attached to the USB port.
A keyboard and mouse can also be attached to the USB ports. In a system with
multiple partitions, each partition can contain only one keyboard and mouse.
External Peripherals
A cell can also access, through the input/output system, a wide variety of peripherals
that are external to the cell. Wide assortments of PCIe-based peripheral devices have
been qualified for Express5800/A1160 systems. These include Fibre Channel
controllers and adapters, disk subsystems (SCSI and Fibre Channel), LAN connectors,
SCSI controllers, SCSI RAID controllers, SCSI tape subsystems, serial controllers, tape
libraries, and other controllers.
Because the list of qualified peripherals changes frequently, contact your sales
representative for current information about qualified peripherals.
Boot Options
Express5800/A1160 systems provide the following boot options:
y Internally from the SAS drives
y Externally from SAS disk drives
y Externally from Fibre Channel storage
y Externally from SCSI storage
y Externally from iSCSI storage
Express5800/A1160 systems are capable of being deployed in a preboot execution
environment (PXE) provided that the external LAN connections exist at boot time. For
more information about implementing this feature, see the Web site for your operating
system vendor.