IBM 86594RY - Netfinity 5000 - 4RY, Hardware Maintenance Manual

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Adapters
Adding an adapter, such as a communication adapter,
extends the capabilities and power of the server. For
example, you can add a RAID (redundant array of
independent disks) adapter that can enhance logical-drive
capacity and performance.
Adapter considerations:
The Netfinity 5000
supports ISA and PCI adapters. You can install up to six
adapters in the connectors on the system board.
The system board in the server contains 16-bit, ISA-bus
expansion connectors and 32-bit, PCI-bus expansion
connectors. One of the expansion slots is a shared
PCI/ISA slot. One of the expansion slots supports only
ISA adapters. The remaining four slots support only PCI
adapters. The server supports only 5.0-volt adapters on
the PCI bus.
Notes
1. You can install PCI adapters in slots 1–5. Slots
1–4 are on PCI bus 2, slot 5 is on PCI bus 1.
Both PCI buses are primary buses; when the
system scans the buses to see what devices are
on them, it scans PCI bus 1 first.
2. You can install ISA adapters in the slots 1 and 2.
Note: If an ISA adapter is not a Plug and Play
device, you must allocate the system
resources that the adapter will use. Use
the Plug and Play choice in the Advanced
Setup selection of the Configuration/Setup
Utility program to allocate resources.
The following figure shows the location of the PCI and ISA
expansion slot connectors on the system board.
PCI
PCI
PCI
PCI
PCI
ISA
ISA
5
4
3
2
1
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