
104 Netfinity and Windows 2000 Integration Guide
• Hot-plug capable device drivers
• A hot-plug capable operating system
At the time of writing, the following Netfinity servers contain PCI Hot Plug slots:
• Netfinity 5500 family (5500, 5500M10 and 5500M20) has four PCI Hot Plug
slots
• Netfinity 5600 has three PCI Hot Plug slots
• Netfinity 7000M10 has 12 PCI Hot Plug slots
• Netfinity 8500R has 12 PCI Hot Plug slots
You can identify these slots on IBM Netfinity servers by the orange retention
latch. Non-hot plug slots have blue latches.
The following PCI adapters and their drivers are supported for use in a PCI Hot
Plug slot in a Windows 2000 environment:
• Netfinity ServeRAID adapters (3L, 3H, and 3HB)
• Netfinity 10/100 Ethernet PCI adapter
• Netfinity Token-Ring 16/4 PCI adapter
With Windows 2000, PCI Hot Plug is fully supported under the Advanced
Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specifications. ACPI supports the
dynamic configuration of adapters added at run time and requires no additional
drivers or management utilities.
6.4.1 Removing a PCI Hot Plug adapter
When Windows 2000 is installed on a server that contains PCI Hot Plug slots, the
Unplug/Eject hardware icon is visible on the task bar. Click the icon to bring up a
menu that allows you to stop the operation of any adapter seated in a PCI Hot
Plug slot, as shown in Figure 89:
Figure 89. The Unplug/Eject task bar icon
Select the adapter you want to stop and remove it from the system. Windows
2000 will notify you when it is safe to physically remove the adapter.
An alternative way to achieve the same is to double-click the Unplug/Eject task
bar icon. This will bring up a window similar to Figure 90:
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