HP AD278A PCI 8-Port Serial Multiplexer Installation Guide, June 2006

HP PCI 8-Port Serial Multiplexer Adapter Installation

On-Line Addition and Replacement Operation on HP-UX 11i v1 Systems

Chapter 1

Step 6. To check if the card is claimed and the device ﬁles are created, run the following command at the

command prompt:

$ ioscan -knfC tty

If the card is claimed the following output is displayed:

To list the device ﬁles created after installing the driver, run the following command at the

command prompt:

$ lssf /dev/tty*

The following output is displayed:

To replace the old adapter with a new adapter on a system that supports HP-UX 11i v1 operating system,

complete the following steps:

NOTE You can replace an adapter with a similar type of adapter. For example, you can replace

AD278A 8-port adapter with AD278A 8-port adapter only.

Step 1. Get the slot number where you want to insert the card by running the following command at the

command prompt:

$ /usr/bin/rad -q

All the slot IDs are displayed.

Step 2. Suspend the AD278A/AD279A adapter driver by the running the following command at the

command prompt:

$ /usr/bin/rad -s slot_id

Step 3. Power-off the supply to the selected slot by running the following command at the command

prompt:

$ /usr/bin/rad -o slot_id