Service manual

System Overview 1-39
For a full discussion of both hard and soft partitions and how to create them,
see AlphaServer GS80/160/320 Getting Started with Partitions.
Table 1–8 describes a fully loaded 32-P system with the maximum number of
CPUs (32), maximum number of PCIs (16), and the maximum number of
standard I/O modules (8). Were each slot in each PCI filled, this system could
have as many as 216 options in addition to those that are part of PCI boxes with
standard I/O modules ((8 PCIs with STD I/Os X 13 available PCI sots = 104 PCI
options) + (8 PCIs without STD I/Os X 14 available PCI sots = 112 PCI options)
= 216 PCI options). These facts, coupled with the possibility of various power
states and error propagation, (see Sections 4.3) indicate why you need a good
map of hardware and firmware.