A7298A HBA Installation Guide

Introduction
16 Host Bus Adapter for Windows and Linux Installation Guide
Product Description
The HBA has the following characteristics:
■ Robust suite of software supporting Windows Server 2003 and Linux Red Hat
Advanced Workstation v2.1.
■ Optical small form factor (LC) interface LC Fibre connector.
■ Embedded optical short-wave laser, multi-mode Fibre Channel interface.
■ Designed using a single custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit
(ASIC). The custom ASIC implements a very high performance, multi-class,
multi-protocol Fibre Channel host adapter with a 64-bit PCI or PCI-X bus
connection.
■ 66/100/133MHz PCI-X 1.0a and PCI 2.2 compatibility.
■ 266MIPs onboard processor, an embedded 1GB/2GB SERDES, and a high
performance unified QDR SRAM.
■ Controlled by a 266 MHz, 32-bit Intel StrongARM RISC processor.