PXH810 User
’s Guide – Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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Software Installation
More information on installing Dolphin
’s SuperSockets™, SISCI or TCP/IP driver software can be found at
http://www.dolphinics.com/support/installation-px.html
Identifying the Card
The card has a label-sticker with the serial
number in the format ‘PXHXXX-YY-ZZZZZZ’, where XXX denotes the
card-type (
e.g. 810
), YY denotes the card revision (
e.g. CC
) and ZZZZZZ denotes the serialized production
number (
e.g. 012345
)
– this whole string makes up the serial number of the card (
i.e. PXH810-CC-012345
).
With the DIS software installed and loaded, you can get this serial number with the dis_diag command:
The top of this output will show information about the card (example from a PXH810-card);
Adapter 0 > Type : PXH810
NodeId : 4
Serial number : PXH810-CC-000024
PXH chipId : 0x87b010b5
PXH chip revision : 0xCA
EEPROM version NTB mode : 0010
Card revision : CC
Topology type : Switch
Topology Autodetect : No
Number of enabled links : 1
PCIe slot state : x8, Gen3 (8 GT/s)
Clock mode slot : Port
Clock mode link : Global
Max payload size (MPS) : 128
Multicast group size : 2 MB
Prefetchable memory size : 256 MB (BAR2)
Non-prefetchable size : 64 KB (BAR4)
Here you will see the whole serial number string, as well as the decoded card-type and card-revision identifiers.
The ‘EEPROM version NTB mode’ may be of interest – this shows the firmware-version of the card.
You can also get this information without dis_iag (for instance when the drivers are not loaded or the card is in
transparent mode), using lspci in Linux:
First run lspci, and identify the card. It will show up as something like
02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8717 16-lane, 8-Port PCI Express Gen 3
(8.0 GT/s) Switch with DMA (rev ca)
02:00.1 System peripheral: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 87d0 (rev ca)
02:00.2 System peripheral: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 87d0 (rev ca)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8717 16-lane, 8-Port PCI Express Gen 3
(8.0 GT/s) Switch with DMA (rev ca)
04:00.0 Bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8732 32-lane, 8-Port PCI Express Gen 3
(8.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ca)