IBM 5000 manual Working with Adapters, Adapter Considerations

Working with Adapters

Working with Adapters

Adding an adapter, such as a communication adapter, extends the capa power of your server. For example, you can add a RAID (redundant independent disks) adapter that can enhance logical-drive capacity and performance.

Adapter Considerations

Your	Netfinity 5000 server supports ISA and PCI adapters. You can inst
five	adapters in the connectors on the system board.
The	system	board in	your server contains 16-bit, ISA-bus expansion	con
and	32-bit,	PCI-bus	expansion connectors. Two of the expansion slots	ar

PCI/ISA slots. The remaining slots support only PCI adapters. Your serve

supports only 5.0-volt adapters on					the	PCI	bus.
Notes:
1. You	can	install	PCI	adapters	in	slots	1–5. Slots 1–4 are on			PCI b
on PCI bus 0. Both PCI buses					are primary buses; when the					system
buses	to	see	what	devices	are	on them, it		scans	PCI bus	0 fir
2. You	can	install	ISA	adapters	in	the	shared	slots	1 and 2.

Note: If an ISA adapter is not a Plug and Play device, you must system resources that the adapter will use. Use the Plug a choice in the Advanced Setup selection of the Configuration/Se Utility program to allocate resources.

The following figure shows the location of the PCI and ISA expansion connectors on the system board.

5		PCI
4		PCI
3		PCI
		PCI
2	ISA
1	PCI
	ISA
Note:			Expansion	slots 1 and 2 are shared slots. Shared slots can be
			adapter	installed in either the PCI connector or the adjacent
			but not	both.

Your server comes with a video controller. This video controller is an component on the system boardnot. Itin anis expansion slot. The integrated video controller has super video graphics array (SVGA) technology.

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