Remove a PCIe Card Carrier

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The SPARC T5-4 server supports single-wide and double-wide card carriers. The removal steps are the same for both carrier types. This topic includes illustrations only for the single-wide carrier.

Note - If you are installing a PCIe card that requires a double-wide carrier, you must remove two adjacent PCIe card carriers.

Caution - To remove a PCIe card that is assigned to an I/O domain, first remove the device from the I/O domain. Then, add the device to the root domain before you physically remove the device from the system. These steps enable you to avoid a configuration that is unsupported by the Direct I/O or SR-IOV feature. For more information about making hardware changes to an I/O domain, refer to the Oracle VM for SPARC documentation.

Caution - This procedure requires that you handle components that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge. This discharge can cause failure of server components.

Take the necessary ESD precautions.
See Prevent ESD Damage.
Start this procedure with the primary domain at the Oracle Solaris prompt.
Note - Removing PCIe card carriers while the server is at the OpenBoot prompt is not supported. The server must be either powered off, or booted into the Oracle Solaris OS.

Locate the PCIe card carrier at the rear of the server.
- See Determine Which PCIe Card Is Faulty to locate a faulty PCIe card.
- For the location of the PCIe card carriers, see Rear Panel Components.

Determine if you are removing a PCIe card carrier from a running server.
- If you are removing a PCIe card carrier from a server that is running (that is, if you are hot-swapping the PCIe card), go to Step 5.
- If you are removing a PCIe card carrier from a powered-down server, go to Step 7.

Take the PCIe card offline. Do one of the following:

Press the ATTN button to take the card offline.
The Power OK LED should go off, indicating that the card is ready to be removed. Go to Step 7.

Use the hotplug command to bring the card offline:

At the Oracle Solaris prompt, list all of the PCIe devices in the device tree:

# hotplug list -l | grep PCIE

This command lists dynamically reconfigurable PCIe resources and shows their operational status. In this case, look for the status of the card you plan to remove.

For example:

/pci@300/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 [PCIE1] EMPTY
/pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 [PCIE3] ENABLED
/pci@380/pci@1/pci@0/pci@a [PCIE9] EMPTY
/pci@3c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@e [PCIE11] EMPTY
/pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@c [PCIE2] EMPTY
/pci@440/pci@1/pci@0/pci@c [PCIE4] EMPTY
/pci@480/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 [PCIE10] EMPTY
/pci@4c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE12] EMPTY
/pci@500/pci@1/pci@0/pci@e [PCIE5] EMPTY
/pci@540/pci@1/pci@0/pci@e [PCIE7] ENABLED
/pci@580/pci@1/pci@0/pci@a [PCIE13] EMPTY
/pci@5c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE15] EMPTY
/pci@600/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE6] EMPTY
/pci@640/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE8] EMPTY
/pci@680/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 [PCIE14] EMPTY
/pci@6c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 [PCIE16] EMPTY

Disable the PCIe card.

For example:

# hotplug disable /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 PCIE3

Power off the PCIe card:

For example:

# hotplug poweroff /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 PCIE3

Disconnect any transceivers, if applicable, and all of the cables connected to the PCIe card.
Tip - Label the cables to ensure proper connection to the replacement PCIe card.

Pull the PCIe card carrier handle down to disengage the carrier from the card cage.

Remove the PCIe card carrier from the server.

SPARC T5-4 Server Service Manual

Remove a PCIe Card Carrier

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