Common Removal Procedures For All Pci Express Cards; Pci Express Card Removal Procedure In Detail; Fc Card (Fibre Channel Card) Removal Procedure - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series Administration Manual

CHAPTER 4 Hot Maintenance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
4.8 Removing PCI Express cards
Hereafter, description about the operation by using dr commands starts at 'For the partition with Dynamic
Reconfiguration utility installed' and description about the operation by sysfs starts at 'For the partition without
Dynamic Reconfiguration utility installed'.
Note
- If you hot remove PCI Express cards from an IOU, see
- In hot removal of PCI Express cards, if you reboot the partition on OS without hot adding new PCI card to
same PCI Express slot after you performed hot remove command, you cannot hot add a PCI Express
card to the PCI Express slot unless you power off the partition.
If you reboot the partition on OS before hot adding, you must power off the partition and replace the PCI
Express card.
- If the Extended Partitioning is enabled, dr command is not supported for PCI Express card hot
replacement.

4.8.1 Common removal procedures for all PCI Express cards

1. Performing the required operating system and software operations depending on the PCI Express card
type
2. Powering off a PCI slot
3. Removing a PCI Express card
4. Performing the required operating system and software operations depending on the PCI Express card
type
Note
This section describes instructions for the operating system and subsystems (e.g., commands, configuration
file editing). Be sure to refer to the respective product manuals to confirm the command syntax and impact on
the system before performing tasks with those instructions.
The following sections describe card removal with the required instructions (e.g., commands, configuration
file editing) for the operating system and subsystems, together with the actual hardware operations. Step 3 is
performed by the field engineer in charge of your system.

4.8.2 PCI Express card removal procedure in detail

This section describes operations that must be performed in the PCI Express card removal procedure.
Preparing the software using a PCI Express card
See 'Preparing the software using a PCI Express card' in
detail".
Confirming the slot number of a PCI Express slot
See 'Confirming the slot number of a PCI Express slot' in
detail".
Checking the power status of a PCI Express slot
See 'Checking the power status of a PCI Express slot' in
detail".
Powering off PCI Express slots
See 'Powering on and off PCI Express slots' in

4.8.3 FC card (Fibre Channel card) removal procedure

The descriptions in this section assume that an FC card is being removed.
Notes
- The FC card used for SAN boot does not support hot plugging.
- This manual does not describe how to change the configuration of peripherals such as expanding and
removing the unit of SAN disk device.
'4.5 IOU hot remove'.
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