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7.3.1 Hot Removal


7.3.1 Hot Removal
This section describes the hot removal 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 removal.
Hot Removal (for a PCI Express Card)
Hot removal is applicable to the PCI Express card. Perform removal according to the following procedure.
Figure 7-10  Hot Removal Flow (for a PCI Express Card)
Figure 7-10  Hot Removal Flow (for a PCI Express Card)
Table 7-12  Hot Removal Work Procedure (for a PCI Express Card)
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 Releasing the assignment of the PCIe card for removal "5.5.1 Releasing the Link Card or PCIe Card Using PCI Hot Plug (PHP)"
5 Lowering the cable support "5.7.1 Lowering the Cable Support"
6 Removing the PCIe card "Chapter 8 Maintaining the PCI Express Cards"
7 Fixing the cable support "6.1.3 Fixing the Cable Support"
8 Confirming that there is no problem with the chassis from which the PCIe card was removed "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