This guide provides an overview of the PCI expansion module and it describes how to install and operate this module. Specifically, it provides the following information:
An index completes this guide.
 | Note: Throughout this document, the term “SGI 300 compute module” refers to the host device to which the PCI expansion module can connect. For example, an SGI 300 compute module can be an SGI Origin 300 server or an SGI Onyx 300 compute module. |
This guide is written for owners, system administrators, and users of the PCI expansion module. It is assumed that the reader has a general knowledge of computers and computer operations.
Your SGI system support engineer (SSE) should perform the addition or replacement of parts and service of your PCI expansion module, with the exception of the following procedures that you may perform yourself:
Installing the PCI expansion module.
Cabling the PCI expansion module.
Installing and removing PCI cards.
This section lists SGI documents that are relevant to the use of the PCI expansion module:
PCI Expansion Module User's Guide (this manual) (hard copy shipped with module)
SGI Origin 300 System with NUMAlink Module User's Guide
SGI Origin 300 User's Guide
SGI Onyx 300 Graphics System User's Guide
IRIX Admin Software Installation and Licensing Guide
Other SGI documentation
Online man pages
IRIX release notes (on CD)
Use this guide to become familiar with your PCI expansion module and to learn how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the module. This guide contains information on installing the module, and installing and replacing PCI cards.
 | Warning: To ensure your safety and protect your system, do not add or replace any components that this guide does not designate as customer-replaceable. Contact your SGI system support engineer (SSE) to install or replace any hardware components that are not designated as customer-replaceable in this guide. |
This guide describes how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the SGI Origin 300 system with NUMAlink module. It contains information on installing the system, and installing and replacing the following components: PCI cards, disk drives, and memory (DIMMs).
This guide describes how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the SGI Origin 300 server. It contains information on installing the server, and installing and replacing the following components: PCI cards, disk drives, and memory (DIMMs).
This guide describes how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the SGI Onyx 300 graphics system. It contains information on installing and replacing disk drives and on connecting the following components to the system: monitors, keyboards, mice, speakers, and a system console.
This is the complete reference guide on using the installation program, inst, to install software. For information on using the Software Manager to install software, see the online Personal System Administration Guide.
You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:
See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com . Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release motes, man pages, and other information.
If it is installed on your SGI system, you can use InfoSearch, an online tool that provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. With an IRIX system, select Help from the Toolchest, and then select InfoSearch. Or you can type infosearch on a command line.
You can also view release notes by typing either grelnotes or relnotes on a command line.
You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line.
Your system includes a set of IRIX online manual pages, which are formatted in the standard UNIX “man page” style. These man pages are located on the internal system disk (or CD-ROM) and are displayed using the man command. For example, to display the man page for the Add_disk command, enter the following command at a shell prompt:
man Add_disk |
Man pages document important system configuration files and commands. References in SGI documentation to these pages include the name of the command and the section number in which the command is located. For example, “Add_disk(1)” refers to the Add_disk command and indicates that it is located in section 1 of the IRIX reference. For additional information about displaying reference pages using the man command, see man(1).
The apropos command locates man pages based on keywords. For example, to display a list of man pages that describe disks, enter the following command at a shell prompt:
apropos disk |
For information about setting up and using apropos, see the apropos(1) and makewhatis(1M) man pages.
SGI provides a comprehensive product support and maintenance program for its products, as follows:
If you are in North America and want support for your SGI-supported products, contact the Technical Assistance Center at +1 800 800 4SGI or your authorized service provider.
If you are outside North America, contact the SGI subsidiary or authorized distributor in your country.
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
Convention | Meaning |
command | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures. |
variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined. |
user input | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font. |
[] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line. |
... | Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated. |
manpage(x) | Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names. |
GUI element | This font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements such as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes, fields, and lists. |
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