Card Slots - Sun Microsystems SPARC Enterprise T5120 Installation And Service Manual
External i/o expansion unit
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FIGURE 1-5
Note – A switch is a device that connects multiple busses to a single bus.
In the I/O boat, all PCI card data passes through the link card.
When you run system diagnostics, the switches are displayed in the output of
OpenBoot PROM probing. However, the link cards themselves never appear during
OpenBoot PROM probing.
1.2
Card Slots
The card slots have the following characteristics:
An I/O boat has seven card slots. Slot numbers 0 through 6 are counted from left
■
to right.
Slot 0 is reserved for the link card. Slot 0 is the first slot in the left side of the I/O
■
boat. For information about link cards, see
1-8
External I/O Expansion Unit Installation and Service Manual for SPARC Enterprise T5xxx Servers • April 2011
Logical Layout of I/O Boats
Section 1.2.2, "Link Kit" on page
1-12.
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