The HP-FL card provides the computer system with a high-speed serial connection to peripherals over a fiber optic data link. Device specific data is converted to a format compatible with the CIO bus.
The high-speed data transfers of HP-FL cards requires that HP-FL devices occupy the lowest-priority CIB slots on CIO machines. Therefore, HP-IB systems (which can only be CIO because HP-IB is not supported on NIO) may require reconfiguration to accommodate HP-FL cards. The reconfiguration requires the primary, secondary, and alternate boot paths to change also. Systems that are initially configured to accommodate HP-FL cards may not require significant modification to accept additional HP-FL cards.
The instructions for configuring HP-IB devices may provide
assistance when used for HP-FL devices, but you must modify the instructions and examples to fit your particular HP-FL installation. Appendix D “Default Configurations Used by INSTALL and UPDATE” lists the default configurations provided for use with HP-FL systems.
Contact your HP representative before attempting to use HP-FL cards in your system.
