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Installing the A4800A Adapter
Looking at Adapter Installation
Card Compatibility
The card must also operate at the slot’s bus frequency. A PCI card must run at any frequency lower than its maximum capability; however, a card that operated at a maximum of 33 MHz would not work on a bus running at 66 MHz. rad provides information about the bus frequency and power available at a slot, as well as other
The PCI specification allows a single physical card to contain more than one port. A
When the replacement card is added to the system, the appropriate driver for that card must be configured in the kernel before beginning the operation. SAM ensures the correct driver is present. (In most cases, the replacement card will be the same type as a card already in the system, and this requirement will be automatically met.) If you have any question about the driver’s presence, or if you are not certain that the replacement card is identical to the existing card, you can use ioscan together with rad to investigate.
•If the necessary driver is not present and the driver is a dynamically loadable kernel module (DLKM), you can load it manually. Refer to the section “Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules” in Chapter 2 of the document: Configuring
•If the driver is static and not configured in the kernel, then the card cannot be
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