Working with Adapters
Working with Adapters
Adding an adapter, such as a communication adapter, extends the capabilities and
power of your server. For example, you can add a RAID (redundant array of
independent disks) adapter that can enhance logical-drive capacity and
performance.
Adapter Considerations
Your Netfinity 5000 server supports ISA and PCI adapters. You can install up to
five adapters in the connectors on the system board.
The system board in your server contains 16-bit, ISA-bus expansion connectors
and 32-bit, PCI-bus expansion connectors. Two of the expansion slots are shared
PCI/ISA slots. The remaining slots support only PCI adapters. Your server
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 bus 1, slot 5 is
on PCI bus 0. Both PCI buses are primary buses; when the system scans the
buses to see what devices are on them, it scans PCI bus 0 first.
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 allocate the
system resources that the adapter will use. Use the Plug and Play
choice in the Advanced Setup selection of the Configuration/Setup
Utility program to allocate resources.
The following figure shows the location of the PCI and ISA expansion slot
connectors on the system board.
PCI
PCI
PCI
PCI
PCI
ISA
ISA
5
4
3
2
1
Note: Expansion slots 1 and 2 are shared slots. Shared slots can be used by an
adapter installed in either the PCI connector or the adjacent ISA connector,
but not both.
Your server comes with a video controller. This video controller is an integrated
component on the system board. It is
not in an expansion slot. The integrated
video controller has super video graphics array (SVGA) technology.
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