24 CR11*, CP11*, CT11* 6U CompactPCI® SBC
Publication No. HRMCR11 Rev. B.0
Setup
Hot Swap on CR11
BIOS
v
er
s
ion
.
This ve�sion is a ra.ther early one and
h
opefully some of the long
periods will speed up
.
The times depend mainly on the memory size and they
are measured with I GB and quick boot enabled. Some of
th
e
postcodes are
16 bit., but only the lower Sbits can be seen at the parallel port data lines
.
All
postcodes are shown in hex.
Table 5: Boot timing
Tin1e after
releasing
POS
T
CODE
Status LED
Comment
PCI reset
0.4 s
92
Red blinking
2s
94
All memory is initialized
3s
DS
Amber blinking
All USB devices, hubs are
initialized * I
7s
202A
Green blinking
Video Bias is started *2
13 s
00
Green steady on
Try booting from mass
storage
Exact ti.ming may vary a lot in dependence of the number of USB devices/hubs
and
the
DRAM size
.
*
I now is the right point to press DEL if you want to go to BIOS SETUP
*2 CRT and/or panel are now initialized and show the stamip screen.
Depending on the monitor
/
display type it may need some additional seconds
w1til you can see something on the screen
When you want to enter the BIOS Setup, you have to press the keyboard
'
DEL
'
key at the right moment. Especiall
y
w
h
en using a slow starting monitor it might
be too late to wait for the CRT to show the message
'
Pre
s
s DEL to enter Setup
'
.
Better look for the LED and press
'
DEL
'
as soon as the LED changes from
amber to green b
li
nk
in
g
.
When you are using add on cards with external BIOS,
you can hit the DEL key while their BIOS mns
(
i
.
e
.
SCSI BIOS device scan).
When you miss the right moment to press the DEL ke
y
,
please use the reset
button on the front panel to restart the power up sequence or switch off the
power s
u
pply for a few seconds and restart it. With the current BIOS pressing
the Ctrl-Alt-
D
e
l
key combination at this boot-moment will result in switchi
n
g
to the next bootable device and try to boot from thi
s
.
This feature cannot be
disabled within Setup
.
The CR! I family supports full Hot Swap according to CPCI specification
2
.
1
.
This inc.ludes all hardware functionality to detect other bus cards or device
s
to
be pl
u
gged in or removed w
h
ile the system is mwting tmder power
.
Also the
CR! I can be hot plugged to a mwting system or be removed from it.
The necessary software
/
driver and operating system handling is not done within
the BIOS of the CR! I, because all the tasks to recognize new inserted boards,
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