IBM 86803RU Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 181
Working with Adapters, hot-pluggable
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Working with Adapters You can add adapters to extend the capabilities and power of your server. Many adapters provide bus-master capabilities, which enable the adapters to perform operations without interrupting the server's microprocessors. You add adapters to the expansion connectors, called slots, on the I/O board of your server. All slots are peripheral component interconnect (PCI) expansion slots. Your server supports up to 12 adapters in the PCI slots. You can install a new PCI adapter or replace an existing PCI adapter with the same type of adapter without turning the server power off and restarting the system. These slots are called hot-pluggable PCI slots. They are also referred to as hot-plug PCI slots. Hot-plug requires support from both the operating system and the adapter device driver. A PCI adapter comes with built-in identification and configuration specifications (set in memory on the device) that provide installation information to the server during startup. This information is read by the input/output (I/O) bus and interpreted by the server BIOS. The BIOS routines automatically configure the adapter around the resources already in use by other devices. Your server comes with a video controller. This video controller is an integrated component on the I/O function card. The integrated video controller has super video graphics array (SVGA) technology. The integrated video controller is not removable. If you want to disable this controller and use a video adapter instead, you can install a video adapter in an expansion slot. When you install a PCI video adapter, the server BIOS automatically disables the integrated video controller. The integrated video controller has 1 MB of video memory. The integrated video controller supports the following screen resolutions: 640 × 480 pels with up to 65,536 colors 800 × 600 pels with up to 65,536 colors 1024 × 768 pels with up to 256 colors 1152 × 864 pels with up to 256 colors The following illustration shows the location of the expansion slots and other components referred to in these steps. Netfinity 7000-M10 - Type 8680 173
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