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SERIAL UPGRADE KIT FOR SERVSWITCH™ AFFINITY
8. Slide the Port Card back into its Affinity slot, as shown in Figure 3-2, and
screw it in securely.
Figure 3-2. Returning the Port Card to its Affinity slot.
9. Connect a user station (KVM console) to the Port Card’s user port (but don’t
connect any computers to its CPU ports yet).
10. Power up the Affinity chassis and reconnect any CPU cables you disconnected
in step 3.
11. Press left-[Ctrl] and [F12] to bring up the Affinity’s on-screen display at the
monitor of the user station attached to the Port Card. Make sure that the
Affinity recognizes all of the CPU ports in your Affinity system (use keyboard
commands to switch between the ports if necessary).
If any switching commands fail, make sure that the new chips are seated
firmly on the daughterboard and that the Port Card is seated firmly in the
slot. If they are, call Black Box Technical Support.
If there are no failures, the Affinity is ready to receive a firmware upgrade.
To perform the main-firmware upgrade that the new chips will require, you’ll need
to connect the Port Card to a PC, download the latest serial-supporting version of
the Affinity’s main firmware files from our Black Box Web site or FTP, and
download the files from the PC to the Affinity. Follow the directions for doing
these things in the “Using the Serial Port” chapter of your Affinity manual.
Once the new main firmware has been downloaded into the Affinity, its new
serial features (described in
Chapter 4
) will become active.
