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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Edward R. Holley, Iii, Kirkland, WA (US);
Koichi Kii, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ryuji Orita, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher C. Ruggles, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward R. Holley, III, Kirkland, WA (US);
Koichi Kii, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ryuji Orita, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher C. Ruggles, Seattle, WA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A facility is provided for hotplugging multiple adapters into a system having a bus with a plurality of adapter receiving hotplug slots. The facility includes connecting multiple hotplug adapters to multiple hotplug slots of the bus, and automatically determining a bus speed for the bus that the multiple hotplug slots and the multiple hotplug adapters connected thereto support. The automatically determining is transparent to a user of the system making the hotplug adapter connections and is independent of an order of connection of the multiple hotplug adapters to the multiple hotplug slots.