This section provides procedures for adding a new PCI hot plug adapter.
Attention: Before you attempt to add PCI hot plug adapters, refer to the PCI Adapter Placement Reference, shipped with system units that support hot plug, to determine whether your adapter can be hot plugged. Refer to your system unit documentation for instructions for installing or removing adapters.
You can add a PCI hot plug adapter into an available slot in the system unit and make new resources available to the operating system and applications without having to reboot the operating system. The adapter can be another adapter type that is currently installed or it can be a different adapter type.
Adding a new PCI hot plug adapter involves the following tasks:
You can complete these tasks with Web-based System Manager. You can also use SMIT or system commands. To perform these tasks, you must log in as root user.
For additional information, see PCI Hot Plug Management in the AIX 5L Version 5.1 System Management Concepts: Operating System and Devices.
Note: When you add a hot plug adapter to the system, that adapter and its child devices might not be available for specification as a boot device using the bootlist command. You might be required to reboot your system to make all potential boot devices known to the operating system.
To obtain additional information for completing the task, you can select the F1 Help key in the SMIT dialogs.
You can use the following commands to display information about PCI hot plug slots and connected devices and to add a PCI hot plug adapter:
For information about installing or removing adapters, refer to your system unit documentation.