Free slots in K-460 & K-580?

[Glenn Crawford]

Greetings,

We have some old K-class servers - specifically a K-460 & a K-580. We have some hardware we would like to add to them, however I am not sure how many free slots / ports are available.

Is there a way to check what's "free" from the UNIX command line (K-460 HP-UX 10.20 / K-580 HP-UX 11.00).

Reason I ask is last time we got someone in here to install a card, he pulled out the expansion board that was in there only to find that some bright spark had just put an empty expansion board in there - there was no electronics attached to the expansion board! Doh! Waste of everyone's time.

As you may be able to tell, these machines were hand-me-down machines with-in the company.

I don't particularly want to take a screwdriver to it, and I definately do not want to shut down these machines to check.. but I'm willing to be misled by any advice people can give me..

Looking forward to your advice.

Cheers,


Glenn.

[Patrick Wessel]

Glenn,
You can't tell from a command line if a 2 slot or 4 slot expansion card is installed. You just see the bus converter, not the single slot. But you should find a product or part number on the card. They would help???

[Glenn Crawford]

OK, just went wandering off to the computer room to check the back of the machines again.. couldn't see any part numbers all it says on the back of the board is:

HSC Expansion I/O

With the usual 8/0, 8/4, 8/8, 8/12 next to the slots...

Cheers,



Glenn.

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

Unfortunately, there is no way you can do that without opening the server. Even if you try from pdc to see what IO you have installed by entering "in" and "io", this only works if some card is connected to it. Even MAPPER won't help.

HTH,
Vince

[Glenn Crawford]

Bummer, I was afraid of that.

OK, thanks for your help guys.

Cheers,



Glenn Crawford.

[manoj_pu · Accepted solution]

Hi Glenn..

We have the same model systems.

Below is the actual H/W configuration of K-Class.

You can compare the ioscan o/p with this details and find out how many slots are free for new hardware.

HP9000 K-460

HSC expansion slots0
Slot0 8/0
Slot1 8/4
Slot2 8/8
Slot3 8/12

HP-PB expansion slots0
Slot1 10/4/4 (Full size)
Slot2 10/4/8 (Half size)
Slot3 10/4/12 (Full size)
Slot4 10/4/16 (Full size)


HP9000 K-580

HSC expansion slots0
Slot0 8/0
Slot1 8/4
Slot2 8/8
Slot3 8/12

HSC expansion slots1
Slot4 12/0
Slot5 12/12
Slot6 14/8
Slot7 14/12

HP-PB expansion slots0
Slot1 10/4/4 (Full size)
Slot2 10/4/8 (Half size)
Slot3 10/4/12 (Full size)
Slot4 10/4/16 (Full size)

HP-PB expansion slots1
Slot1 10/16/4 (Full size)
Slot2 10/16/8 (Half size)
Slot3 10/16/12 (Full size)
Slot4 10/16/16 (Full size)


Rgds

Manoj

[harry d brown jr]

Glenn,

Can you provide a "ioscan -fn"?

Also, you do not need to take the back off to determine what IO card slots are available! Go to the back of the machine, and identify everything in the back.

live free or die
harry

[Glenn Crawford]

I've attached the ioscan -fn from the K580.

The ioscan -fn from the K460 will be here shortly.

Cheers,



Glenn.

[Glenn Crawford]

And here's the output of the ioscan -fn from the K460...

Cheers,



Glenn.