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7.2.1 Hot Addition


7.2.1 Hot Addition
This section describes the hot addition workflow.
References to detailed descriptions are written in the work procedure tables. See any of them as required.
The following patterns are available for hot addition.
Hot Addition (for a PCI Express Card)
Hot addition is applicable to the PCI Express card. Perform addition according to the following procedure.
Figure 7-6  Hot Addition Flow (for a PCI Express Card)
Figure 7-6  Hot Addition Flow (for a PCI Express Card)
Table 7-8  Hot Addition Work Procedure
Step Task Reference
1 Opening the rack door  
2 Locating the PCI expansion unit requiring maintenance by causing the CHECK LED (locator) of the unit to blink "5.2 Checking the PCI Expansion Unit Requiring Maintenance and the Destination Physical Partition"
3 Checking the operating condition of the system and the I/O device usage status "5.4.1 Checking the Operating Condition of the Physical Partition or Logical Domain"
"5.4.2 Checking the Assignment Status of I/O Devices"
4 Lowering the cable support "5.7.1 Lowering the Cable Support"
5 Installing a PCIe card "Chapter 8 Maintaining the PCI Express Cards"
6 Fixing the cable support "6.1.3 Fixing the Cable Support"
7 Incorporating the PCIe card "6.3.3 Mounting a PCIe Card on the Server Using PCI Hot Plug (PHP)"
8 Confirming that there is no problem with the added FRU "6.7 Checking the FRU Status After Maintenance" in the Fujitsu SPARC M12-1 Service Manual
"10.5.3 Checking the FRU Status After Maintenance" in the Fujitsu SPARC M12-2/M12-2S Service Manual
"6.7 Checking the FRU Status after Maintenance" in the Fujitsu M10-1/SPARC M10-1 Service Manual
"6.3.3 Checking the FRU status after maintenance" in the Fujitsu M10-4/Fujitsu M10-4S/SPARC M10-4/SPARC M10-4S Service Manual
9 Turning off the CHECK LED (locator) of the PCI expansion unit requiring maintenance "6.5 Turning Off the CHECK LED (Locator) of the PCI Expansion Unit"
10 Closing the rack door