AE311A and AD300A -- HBA Installation Guide

Contents

Aboutthisguide .......................... 7

Intendedaudience...................................... 7

Relateddocumentation.................................... 7

Documentconventionsandsymbols .............................. 7

HPtechnicalsupport..................................... 8

Subscriptionservice ................................... 9

Helpfulwebsites .................................... 9

1HBAfeatures........................... 11

Performance speciﬁcations .................................. 11

Environmental speciﬁcations................................. 12

Physical speciﬁcations ................................... 12

2 Installing the HBAs . . ...................... 13

Installationprerequisites .................................. 13

Installationprocedure ................................... 13

LEDindicators....................................... 14

3 Installing and conﬁ guringtheLinuxdriver............... 15

Prerequisites ....................................... 15

Installingthedriverkit ................................... 15

UsingtheRPM ...................................... 16

Installing the ﬁbreutilsRPM ................................. 16

Changingdriverparameters............................... 16

Proc ﬁlesystemsupport................................... 16

ConﬁguringtheHBAs ................................... 17

Starting the Conﬁgurationprotocol.............................. 17

Using the Driver Conﬁgurationmenu ............................. 18

TroubleshootingLinux.................................... 19

4InstallingtheWindowsdrivers................... 21

Prerequisites ....................................... 21

InstallingdriversusingtheSmartComponent.......................... 21

TroubleshootingWindows.................................. 22

UsingtheEventViewer................................. 22

ARegulatorycomplianceandsafety................. 23

Laserdevice ....................................... 23

Lasersafetywarning.................................... 23

Certiﬁcation and classiﬁcationinformation........................... 23

Laserproductlabel..................................... 24

Internationalnoticesandstatements ............................. 24

Canadiannotice(avisCanadien) ............................ 24

ClassAequipment................................. 24

EuropeanUnionnotice................................. 24

BSMInotice...................................... 25

Japanese notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Koreannotice....................................... 26

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