Chapter 1: Maintaining and Upgrading the Hardware
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Upgrading the Hardware—Sun Cobalt Control Station
Figure 2.
Top cover on the Sun Cobalt Control Station
Adding a PCI card
The Sun Cobalt Control Station unit is a single rack-unit (1RU) enclosure. Before
you purchase a component to add to the Sun Cobalt Control Station, ensure that
the component fits into the allocated space.
Specifications for a PCI card
The PCI expansion slot has been designed to accommodate the PCI standard
short card form factor, with some additional space for longer cards. The PCI card
must be less than 10.5 inches (267 mm) long.
The current loads for a PCI card must not exceed the following limits:
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5V @ 1A
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+12V @ 0.5A
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-12V @ 0.1A
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PCI retainer
PCI slot cover
PCI screw
