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After plugging in a cable, lock the connector using the latching mechanism particular to the
cable vendor. When data is being transferred the Green LED will blink. See
Care should be taken as not to impede the air exhaust flow through the ventilation holes. Use
cable lengths that allow for routing horizontally around to the side of the chassis before
bending upward or downward in the rack.
To remove a cable, disengage the locks and slowly pull the connector away from the port
receptacle. The LED indicator will turn off when the cable is unseated.
Identifying the Card in Your System
On Linux
Get the device location on the PCI bus by running lspci and locating lines with the string “Mellanox
Technologies”:
lspci |grep -i Mellanox
Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT2892 Family [ConnectX-
6
Dx]
On Windows
Open Device Manager on the server. Click
Start
=>
Run
, and then enter
devmgmt.msc.
Expand
System Devices
and locate your ConnectX-6 Dx adapter card.
Right click the mouse on your adapter's row and select
Properties
to display the adapter card
properties window.
Click the
Details
tab and select
Hardware Ids
(Windows 2012/R2/2016) from
the
Property
pull-down menu.
PCI Device (Example)
