How do I operate the Hot swappable feature onEB4-1U and EB7-X8

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Product: EB4-1U and EB7-X8

 

Question:
How do I operate the Hot swappable feature?

 

Answer:
New PCI Express technology allows you to remove your 3rd Party PCIe
cards for maintenance or replacement – without shutting the system down. For this feature to work, you need to install the Magma software driver. See Chapter 6 for instructions on how to download the latest software for your system, should you require this feature.

Procedure for hot-un-plugging a PCIe plug in card:
1. Given a stable system booted with the Magma chassis, an applet on the right hand side of the start menu bar should appear depicting a card with a green arrow above it.
Double click on the applet.

2. A dialog should appear with the title “Safely Remove Hardware�? in the dialog will be a list of devices that may be removed from the system. Within this list will be the cards
currently plugged into the chassis.

3. Select a device and click on the “Properties button�?.

4. If the device is currently in the Magma chassis, the location will show “Magma chassis x slot y�?. Where x identifies the physical chassis and y identifies the slot the device is plugged into. After verifying that this is the device to be removed, click
on the OK button to close the new dialog.

5. The properties dialog should close and the original “Safely
Remove Hardware�? dialog should remain.
Click on the Stop button of the dialog.

6. A dialog with the title “Stop a Hardware device�? should appear.
This device is used to confirm that the user wishes to stop this device.
Click on the OK button of the new dialog.

7. After a brief period a pop up will appear telling the user that the device may be removed safely, and the device will be removed from the list of the original dialog.
Press the Attention button that corresponds to the slot where the device is located.

8. A green LED, labeled PX PwrE (where X corresponds to the slot number) will begin to flash.

Note: If, by mistake, you’ve pressed the button corresponding to the wrong slot, immediately let go of the button and the LED will stop flashing and remain on,
otherwise continue to step 9.

9. After 5-6 seconds the LED will stop flashing and turn off completely. Remove the card and replace it with a new one, then press the button again. Ideally the PCIe card that was removed from the system will be replaced with an identical, working card. Replacing that card with one that has a different function or purpose may cause the system
to crash due to a mismatch in the resources pre-allocated by the operating system.

10. The LED should start flashing again. If power should not be applied to this slot, immediately press the button again and the LED will stop flashing and remain off, otherwise go to step 11.

11. After 5-6 seconds the LED will stop flashing and remain on. After a brief period the new device will be recognized by the system, and it should be added to the list in the
“Safely Remove Hardware�? dialog