To determine which type of port adapter is installed in your system, use the show diag slot
command. Specific port adapter information is displayed, as shown in the following example of a
one-port PA-T3 serial port adapter in chassis slot 3 on a Cisco 7200 series router:
router# show diag 3
Slot 3:
PA-T3 PA port adapter, 1 port
Port adapter is analyzed
Port adapter insertion time 3d19h ago
Hardware revision 0.1
Serial number
Test history
EEPROM format version 0
EEPROM contents (hex):
0x20: 00 70 00 01 00 45 12 9E 49 0A 38 01 00 00 00 00
0x30: 00 00 00 00 97 05 01 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
The following example shows a one-port PA-T3 serial port adapter in chassis slot 10 on a VIP2:
router# show diag 10
Slot 10:
Physical slot 10, ~physical slot 0x5, logical slot 10, CBus 0
Microcode Status 0x4
Master Enable, LED, WCS Loaded
Board is analyzed
Pending I/O Status: None
EEPROM format version 1
VIP2 controller, HW rev 2.4, board revision D0
Serial number: 04481599
Test history: 0x00
Flags: cisco 7000 board; 7500 compatible
EEPROM contents (hex):
0x20: 01 15 02 04 00 44 62 3F 49 06 94 03 00 00 00 00
0x30: 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Slot database information:
Flags: 0x4
Controller Memory Size: 32 MBytes DRAM, 2048 KBytes SRAM
PA Bay 0 Information:
PA-T3 Serial PA, 1 ports
EEPROM format version 0
HW rev 0.1, Board revision UNKNOWN
Serial number: 04526751
PA Bay 1 Information:
PA-T3 Serial PA, 1 ports
EEPROM format version 0
HW rev 0.1, Board revision UNKNOWN
Serial number: 04526749
Using show Commands to Display Interface and System Information
Board revision UNKNOWN
4526750
Part number
0x0
RMA number
Part number: 73-1684-03
RMA number: 00-00-00
Insertion time: 0x14AC (3d19h ago)
Part number: 73-2616-01
Part number: 73-2616-01
73-2616-01
00-00-00
Configuring the PA-T3 Interfaces 8-21