Technical Advisory 974

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This Technical Advisory describes an issue which may or may not affect the customer’s product

Intel Technical Advisory TA-0974-1

5200 NE Elam Young Parkway

Hillsboro, OR 97124

April 5th, 2011

Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) functions on devices

connected to IPMB connector might not be available on Intel® Server

Board S1200BTL

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described herein may contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the product to deviate from published

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Products Affected

Table. 1. Products Affected

Product

Product code

MM#

Intel

Server Board S1200BTL

S1200BTL

911776

BBS1200BTL

911645

DBS1200BTL

911794

Intel

Server System R1304BTLSFAN

R1304BTLSFAN

911698

R1304BTLSFANNA

907775

Intel

Server System R1304BTLSHBN

R1304BTLSHBN

911688

R1304BTLSHBNNA

907658

Intel

Server System P4304BTLSFCN

P4304BTLSFCN

912776

P4304BTLSFCNNA

908252

Intel

Server System P4304BTLSHCN

P4304BTLSHCN

912775

Summary of content (2 pages)

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This Technical Advisory describes an issue which may or may not affect the customer’s product Intel Technical Advisory TA-0974-1 5200 NE Elam Young Parkway Hillsboro, OR 97124 April 5th, 2011 Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) functions on devices connected to IPMB connector might not be available on Intel® Server Board S1200BTL Information in this document is provided in connection with Intel products.
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P4304BTLSHCNNA 907886 Description ® Intel has discovered a potential marginal timing issue on the Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) of the Intel Server Board S1200BTL when connected with a third party management device. The issue observed exhibits the following symptom: BMC data reads of over 2 bytes from connected IPMB devices might fail to complete. Single or Two byte reads between BMC IPMB and third party management devices are not affected by this issue.