First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL4 Update 3 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs)
Hyperthreading
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Graphics Card
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440
NVIDIA Quadro FX560
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCI-E
ATI v3350 PCI-E
ATI v7200 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum (MB)
Maximum
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives
All Supported SATA disk drives
All Supported USB Drive Keys
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5752 10/100/1000
Onboard Audio
Onboard SATA/SAS Raid
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
LSI 8344
Hardware Raid
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
HP Standard Keyboard, USB
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5
Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l Englis
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download
drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8344 ELP (RAID 0,1, 10 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1,). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 8 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8400. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support.
footnote 9 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw8400 Red Hat Linux Support
RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(x86)
(EM64T)
512
512
32GB
32GB
6
6
6
6
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later
RH EL DT 5 or later
(x86 & EM64T)
(x86 & x86_64)
512
512
32GB
32GB
6
6
6
6
5
5