Chapter 7. IBM iSeries 820, 830, and 840 features and placement 237
#5088 #5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit
The #5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit is an 8 EIA high “top hat”, which can be installed on top of a #5074/#5094 PCI-X
Expansion Tower or on top of a #9079 Base PCI I/O Enclosure. The #5088 has 14 PCI-X slots for installation of PCI IOPs
and IOAs. Disk units and removable media are not supported by the #5088 and cannot be installed.
The #5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit has two redundant 575W power supplies and two power connector cables that attach
internally to the AC box of the tower on which it resides. The #5088 has dual-line cord capability, but to achieve it, the tower
on which it resides must have dual-line cord capability.
The #5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit includes a bus adapter to provide the HSL interface to the system. The IBM marketing
configurator adds one of the following to the order:
#9876 Base Optical Bus Adapter
#9877 - Base HSL-2 Bus Adapter
#9886 Base Optical Bus Adapter
Specify when attaching to optical HSL-2 ports.
#9887 Base HSL-2 Bus Adapter (default)
Specify when attaching to copper HSL ports.
For Model 820, if the #5088 attaches to HSL ports A0 or A1, the HSL cable cannot exceed 6 m. Select an appropriate
number of the following HSL/HSL-2 cables:
#1307 -1.75 m Copper HSL-2 Cable
#1470 - 6 m Optical HSL Cable
#1471 - 30 m Optical HSL Cable
#1472 - 100 m Optical HSL Cable
#1473 - 250 m Optical HSL Cable
#1474 - 6 m HSL to HSL-2 Cable
#1475 - 10 m HSL to HSL-2 Cable
#1482 - 3.5 m HSL-2 Cable
#1483 - 10 m HSL-2 Cable
#1485 - 15 m HSL-2 Cable
Select one of the following SPCN cables per expansion unit:
#0369 100 m Optical SPCN Cable
#1463 - 2 m SPCN Cable
#1464 - 6 m SPCN Cable
#1465 - 15 m SPCN Cable
#1466 - 30 m SPCN Cable
#1468 - 250 m Optical SPCN Cable
#6001 Power Control Cable - 2 M
#6006 Power Control Cable - 3 M
#6007 Power Control Cable - 15 M
#6008 Power Control Cable - 6 M
#6029 Power Control Cable - 30 M
The #5088 PCI-X Expansion Unit can be ordered with a #5074 PCI Expansion Tower, #5094 PCI-X Expansion Tower,
#9079 Base I/O Tower on initial orders. The #5074, #5094, and #9079 ship with the #5088 installed. The #5088 can also
be ordered as an MES install on an existing #5074, #5094, and #9079.
A #5088 cannot be installed on a #5294 1.8 m I/O Tower.
Maximum: One per #5074, #5094, #9079
The #5088 is also supported in Linux partitions with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for POWER or Red Hat Enterprise
Linux AS for POWER Version 3.
Minimum operating system level: OS/400 V5R2
The #5088 was withdrawn from marketing on 01 June 2006.
