Installing Hardware Options 4-33
Installing PCI Support
Compaq Enhanced Functionality Support (EFS) diskettes for Unix contain all
the software components to support Compaq PCI Hot Plug.
For more information, refer to the PCI Hot Plug Administration Guide on the
Compaq Systems Reference Library CD, the UnixWare online documentation,
or the Compaq White Paper "PCI Hot Plug Technology with SCO
SoftwareArchitecture" found on the Compaq website at www.compaq.com.
For further information on the PCI Hot Plug Button and PCI Hot Plug
software, see the PCI Hot Plug Important Facts in the online PCI Hot Plug
Administration Guide on the Systems Reference Library CD.
Supported I/O Expansion Boards
The I/O board of the ProLiant 8500 has eleven PCI Hot Plug expansion slots.
These slots are distributed among three PCI buses as shown in Table 4-4. The
ProLiant 8500 server is shipped with a Network Interface Controller (NIC) in
a slot on bus 1.