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Installing PCI Support
Compaq provides PCI Hot Plug support for NetWare via Compaq Support Paq
for Novell NetWare.
For more information, refer to the PCI Hot Plug Administration Guide on the
Documentation CD, the NetWare online documentation, or the Compaq white
paper, PCI Hot Plug Expand Feature on Compaq Servers in Novell NetWare
Environments, located on the Compaq website:
http://www.compaq.com
SCO UnixWare
Supported PCI Functionality
Compaq support of PCI Hot Plug under UnixWare 7.01 provides hot
replacement, hot upgrade, and hot addition for a variety of boards. You can
eliminate downtime when you replace faulty expansion boards, upgrade your
systems, and dynamically add new expansion boards.
Software Components
The primary software components for hot-plug support include:
■ Hot-plug Admin Manager user interface
■ Hot-plug Controller interface
■ Netscape AutoConfig Subsystem
■ Hot-plug system and device drivers
■ Device Driver Interface (DDI-8) specification
The Admin Manager is the graphical user interface for PCI Hot Plug
technology. All user commands to add, remove, or replace an expansion board
funnel through the Admin Manager. The Hot Plug Admin Manager is
incorporated into SCO’s existing system-managed framework called SCO
Admin.
The Hot Plug Controller interface tracks system component information and
manages the actions required for hot-plug functions. The Hot Plug Controller
Interface processes Hot Plug Services Library (HPSL) requests by interfacing
with the Netscape AutoConfig Subsystem. Using the existing Compaq Support
Software 2.1, auto-configuring framework hot-plug events will be handled
through the resource manager database, which has been updated for
dynamically loading and unloading individual device drivers.