User`s guide

PCI Configuration Requirements

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Note: SGI does not support conﬁgurations that share serial boards with Fibre Channel

HBAs on the same bus.

Recommended Card Layouts

The tables in this section recommend card layouts for the SGI Media Server

infrastructure. They represent only standard minimum and maximum conﬁguration

options.

The following two conventions are used in the tables:

• Optional slot layout possibilities are in parentheses.

• The descriptors “best choice” and “last choice” are used for serial cards to indicate

card placement priority, where “last choice” indicates that you only use this

bus/slot if no other slots are available.

A Basic Two-Channel System ( Model 325)

Table 2-9 shows the layout of the three internal PCI slots available on the Origin 350. The

Origin 350 also provides a console port (serial I/O) and two additional integrated serial

ports that can be used for VDCP control of two PCI-VIDAUD-MSB-B boards. The

integrated UltraSCSI interface can be used with the TP900 (if conﬁgured). A primary

network interface (TX-1000) is also provided.

1. See the introductory text for section “Recommended Card Layouts” on page 25 for

conventions used in the table.

Table 2-9 Origin 350 Internal PCI Slot Layout

Bus Slot

Recommended Card Layout for Internal Slots Module

(001c01) Xtalk Slot

2 1 PCI-VIDAUD-MSB-B card1 15 1

2 2 PCI-VIDAUD-MSB-B card2 15 2

1 1 (Gigabit Ethernet)(33Mhz-only cards—last choice)

15 1