| Title: | AlphaServer 4100 |
| Moderator: | MOVMON::DAVIS S |
| Created: | Tue Apr 16 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 648 |
| Total number of notes: | 3158 |
I have a customer who has 2 Alpha 4000's that they bought in Feb.
They now have bought I/O expansions for this boxes. All they received
was the I/O backplane and a power supply. Will we be able to do the
upgrade from what I've read we may need a new system drawer. Is that
true.
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| 617.1 | needs drawer swap | GIDDAY::FLAWN | Thu May 22 1997 05:12 | 13 | |
Note 511 gives some info on this. From this and the parts lists it
comes out that the older BA30A drawer can't be upgraded with the
expansion option you have (I think you have the pwr sup, a saddle module
*and* a horse module, which make up H7150-AA). The H7150-AA can be used
for expanding the newer BA30B-AB drawers.
In this case a drawer swap would be needed, unless there's another way
of achieving the objective (seems surprising that they'd add new stuff
so quick as to run out of slots in a couple of months ?).
Regards,
Dave.
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| 617.2 | This looks fun!! | SCASS1::TURNERG | Thu May 22 1997 12:35 | 6 | |
When they bought these systems they were fully populated with KZPSA's
and DE500's they are connecting to some EMC controllers so to add
anything else like memory channels we need the expansion. With the new
BA30B-AB drawer will we just have to move the CPU's memory and I/O
cards plus install the PCI expansion or will we have to field strip
the existing boxes and move everything over to the new drawers.
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| 617.3 | ex | VYGER::HENDERSONL | Fri May 23 1997 07:09 | 10 | |
The "new" 4000 upgrade box is a BA30B-AA and it includes the PCI
expansion already installed. All you need to do is remove
CPU/Memory/PCI options from the old drawer, install it in the new
drawer and return the old drawer.
Orderable part number is DH-53Z2A-AA.
Les
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