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Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards
Online Addition (OLA) for a PCI Card
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 386
Step 3. Access the list of the local nPartition’s PCI card slots from SAM or
Partition Manager.
To list cards in SAM, access the Peripheral Devices > Cards area.
To list cards in Partition Manager, select the local nPartition in the
primary window, then select and open the I/O chassis where the new
card will be installed.
Step 4. Identify the card slot where the new PCI card will be installed, and
confirm that the slot can support the card.
You can identify the card slot using SAM’s Cards window or Partition
Manager’s list of cards in its primary window. The target card slot must
be available (the “Description” column for the slot is “empty slot”).
You also can use the rad -q command to confirm that the target card slot
is available (the “Occupied” column for the slot is “No”).
NOTE The Show I/O Slot Details option in SAM and Partition Manager displays
the default bus speed for the selected slot, although all slots are capable
of operating at either 33 MHz or 66 MHz.
When the slot “Power Available” listed is 65535 watts, the indication is
that slot power details are unavailable to the utility.
See the chapter nPartition System Overviews on page 31 for details on
the types of physical card keying the PCI card slots support.
Step 5. Confirm that the device driver(s) required by the card are installed in the
HP-UX kernel currently running on the nPartition.
You can view currently loaded drivers using the SAM (/usr/sbin/sam)
utility’s Kernel Configuration—>Drivers area.
Step 6. [Optional] Confirm the physical location of both the server and the PCI
card slot.
Perform the following tasks:
A. Set the card slot’s attention indicator to flash in order to help you
locate the slot.