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Figure 2-19 shows typical optical cable connections.
Figure 2-19 Typical optical cable connection
General rules for the PCI Gen3 I/O expansion drawer configuration
The PCIe3 optical cable adapter can be in any of the x16 PCIe Gen3 adapter slots in the
Power E850C system node. However, generally use the PCIe adapter slot priority information
while selecting slots for installing PCIe3 Optical Cable Adapter (#EJ08).
Table 2-29 shows PCIe adapter slot priorities in the Power E850C server.
Table 2-29 PCIe adapter slot priorities
T1
T2
Optical cable adapter
T1
T2
Optical cable adapter
T1
T2
Fanout module
T1
T2
Fanout module
Optical cables
Optical cables
Server
I/O Expansion Drawer
Feature
code
Description
Slot priorities
Two processor
modules
Three processor
modules
Four processor
modules
EJ08
PCIe3 Optical Cable Adapter for
PCIe3 Expansion Drawer
9, 7, 11, 8
a
a. For information about how the slot numbers listed relate to physical location codes, see Table 2-14 on page 47.
9, 7, 4, 11, 8, 3
9, 7, 4, 2, 11, 8, 3, 1
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