Installation guide

E
Administering Specific Hardware
E.1 Introduction
This appendix describes the procedures for adding and configuring certain
hardware devices or options as follows:
• PCMCIA cards
• CalComp graphics tablet
• Logical partitions on the AlphaServer GS140
E.2 PCMCIA Support
PCMCIA (PC Card) support is limited to the following capabilities:
• Support of selected ISA to PCMCIA bridge adapters
• Support on the following platforms:
– AlphaStation 255
– AlphaStation 200
– AlphaStation 400
– AlphaStation 600
– AlphaServer 1000
• One modem card, specifically Megahertz XJ2288 (28.8kpbs)
• Hot swap capability of PC Cards
E.2.1 Restrictions
The following restrictions apply in this release.
• No support is provided for loadable device drivers for PC Cards.
• If the system does not have enough available IRQ (interrupt) numbers
to assign to the PCMCIA devices, PCMCIA devices cannot be
configured. To support one PCMCIA adapter the system must have at
least three unused IRQ numbers available. One IRQ is for the adapter
and the other two are for each PCMCIA socket.
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