PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for IBM AIX - Installation Guide

Chapter 1
Introduction
Description
The Compaq StorageWorks PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for IBM AIX
shown in Figure 1-1 provides high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity.
The HBA is compatible with Fibre Channel hubs, storage subsystems, and tape drives.
The HBA supports the SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol, Fibre Channel Switched Fabric
connectivity, and provides point-to-point Fibre Channel arbitrated loop connectivity. The
HBA conforms to PCI Local Bus specification 2.1, and is fully compatible with both
32-bit and 64-bit PCI busses. The HBA accepts industry standard Gigabit Interface
Converter (GBIC) modules.