Users Guide

3–Fibre Channel Configuration
Enabling QLogic Forward Error Correction
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Enabling QLogic FEC
To enable the QLogic FEC feature, submit a case to Technical Support at
www.marvell.com
, Support, or refer to the QLogic document, Application Note:
Enabling Forward Error Correction, (part number 83830-514-03).
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Instead of having to request retransmission of the entire data frame, the
receiving device can recreate or reconstruct the data stream itself. This
process prevents multiple CRC errors from being triggered and causing
application performance issues.
NOTE
FEC can be enabled or disabled manually, as long as the adapter is
operating at 16Gbps and connected to a Fibre Channel switch with FEC
support. At 8Gbps, FEC is not supported.