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Goal

Solution

Oracle Confidential PARTNER - Available to partners (SUN).
Reason: FRU CAP

Applies to:

Goal

How to remove and replace a Starcat PCI IO Board

Solution

CAP PROBLEM OVERVIEW: PCI IO Board needs replacement

DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS

WHAT SKILLS DOES THE ENGINEER NEED:(IS A SITE ENGINEER AVAILABLE?)
Starcat Training, Familiarity with SMS command set.

FIELD ENGINEER INSTRUCTIONS

IO Board hosts the physical PCI card and the "schizo" Safari-PCI bridge controller chips.

DR (Dynamic Reconfiguration) OR a domain outage will be required.

WHAT STATE SHOULD THE SYSTEM BE IN TO BE READY TO PERFORM THE RESOLUTION ACTIVITY? :

The customer should DR the IO board out of the domain ("cfgadm -c disconnect IOx"), and then power off the IO board. If DR is not possible, the customer can shut the domain down using "setkeyswitch -d X off".

WHAT ACTION DOES THE ENGINEER NEED TO TAKE:

1: Note the positions of any cabling going into the PCI cards (SCSI, network, fibre, etc). Ensure each cable is labelled. Remove the cables.
2: Note the positions of any PCI cassettes. Remove each PCI cassette from the IO board to be replaced.
3: Remove the IO board
4: IMPORTANT: On the MAIN SC, wait for $SMSLOGGER/platform/messages to show a message stating that the board has been removed.
5: Insert replacement IO board
6: Re-insert PCI cassettes into their original positions
7: Re-connect any cables into their original locations.
8: Perform level 32 POST using "setkeyswitch -d X -l 32 on"

OBTAIN CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE N/A

WHAT ACTION DOES THE CUSTOMER NEED TO TAKE TO RETURN THE SYSTEM TO AN OPERATIONAL STATE:
N/A

REFERENCE INFORMATION:
Service Manual: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19065-01/servers.e25k/index.html

TIME ESTIMATE: 45 minutes
Inclusive of POST.

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