A couple of questions about a PowerEdge 2300

Picked up a surplus PowerEdge 2300 server, and looking it over brings a couple of questions to mind. I downloaded the manuals from Dell, but didn't really cover the topics.

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Hi all, I have two Dells, an older one and a brand new one. I have a lot of music files on the old one that I...

1) The motherboard, near PCI slot 5, has text silkscreened on it "PCI5 is RAID upgradeable" What the heck does THIS mean ??? I've heard of add-on cards like the Adaptec RAIDPort that turn the onboard SCSI into RAID but as I recall they go into special connectors that are slightly physically different than regular PCI slots. Or was there a special version for this Dell ? Or is the silkscreen talking about something completely different ?

2) On the back, between the keyboard-mouse and video connectors, are a couple of odd ports that the manual calls "Server Management Bus" ports. Okay, that tells me what they ARE but doesn't explain what they DO. What sort of things would one typically do via these ports ?

TIA

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