9910 (LC0 - LC7) slots are located in the front of the chassis. The 5 fabric cards (FC0 - FC4) can be
inserted or removed from the rear side of the chassis.
Handle all cards by the metal card carrier edges only; avoid touching the board or any connector pins. After
removing a card, carefully place it in an antistatic bag or similar environment to protect it from ESD and dust
in the optic ports (fiber-optic line cards).
Caution
Be careful to avoid damaging the EMI gasket that runs along the full height of the card front panel edges.
Damage to the EMI gasket can affect the ability of your system to meet EMI requirements.
Caution
To avoid damaging card mechanical components, never carry an RSP card, RP card, FC, or LC by the captive
installation screws or ejector levers. Doing so can damage these components and cause card insertion problems.
Caution
The BPID board monitors OIR by counting the number of card insertions for each slot and saving that
information in non-volatile memory. OIR monitoring is done for all line cards, the RSP, the RP, and the fan
trays. See
for more information.
Note
Removing Cards from the Chassis
Follow these steps to remove and replace FC, or LC from the card cage:
Procedure
Step 1
Power down the card using either of the two processes:
a) Use the CLI to power down the card.
Router#
admin
Router(admin)#
config
Router(admin-config)#
hw-module power disable location location
Router(admin-config)#
commit
Router(admin-config)#
exit
The location is specified in rack/slot/cpu notation. For example,
hw-module power disable location
0/1/CPU0
.
b) Disengage the card from the back plane by performing Step 3a, 3b, and 3c. Leave the card inside the slot.
Once the card is powered down wait 10 minutes for the line card to cool down below a temperature suitable
to touch
Step 2
Disconnect any cables from the card.
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