AB379A and AB379B HBA Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- AB379A and AB379B PCI-X 2.0 dual-port 4Gb FC adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows installation guide
- HP StorageWorks
- About this guide.
- Intended audience
- Related documentation
- Document conventions and symbols
- HP technical support
- Helpful web sites
- Subscriptionservice
- 1 HBA features
- Performance specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Physical specifications
- 2 Installing the HBAs
- Installation prerequisites
- Installation procedure
- 3 Installing and configuring the Linux driver
- Prerequisites
- Installing the driver kit
- Using the RPM
- Installing the fibreutils RPM
- Changing driver parameters
- Proc file system support
- Configuring the HBAs
- Starting the Configuration protocol
- Using the Driver Configuration menu
- Troubleshooting Linux
- 4 Installing the Windows drivers.
- Prerequisites
- Installing drivers using the Smart Components
- Troubleshooting Windows
- Using the Event Viewer
- A Regulatory compliance and safety
- Declaration of conformity for products marked with the FCC logo, US only
- Laser device
- Laser safety warning
- Certification and classification informati
- Laser product label.
- International notices and statements
- Canadian notice (avis Canadien)
- European Union notice
- BSMI (Taiwan)
- Japanese notice
- Korean notice
- Electrostatic discharge
- Grounding methods
- Index.
1HBAfeatures
This chapter d escribes the features of the PCI-X 2.0 dual-port HBAs.
•Performance specifications,page11
•Environmental specifications,page11
•Physical specifications, page 12
Performance specifications
The PCI-X 2.0 4G b FC adapters a re 4-G b, high-performance d irect memory access (DMA) bus master
HBAs designed for high-end systems.
The A B379B is the newest model, with a different application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) from
the
AB379A.
These HBAs ha
ve the following features:
• Combine a powerful reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor, a Fibre Channel protocol
manager
(FPM) with 4Gb Fibre Channel transceivers, and a peripheral component interconnect
(PCI) or peripheral component interconnect-exten ded (PCI-X) local bus interface in a single-chip
solution
• Support Fabric Loop Attach (FLA) connections
• Support bus master DMA
• Supports S
CSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), and Fibre Channel-Virtual Interface (FC-VI)
protocols
• Support point-to-point fabric connection (F-PORT FABRIC LOGIN)
• Comply wi
th:
•PCI Local Bus Specification revision 2.3
• PCI-X Protocol Addendum to the PCI Local Bus Specification, revision 2.0a
•PCI-X El
ectrical and Mechanical Addendum (revision 2.0a) to the PCI Local Bus Specification
• PCI Bus Power Management Inter face Specification revision 1.1
•PCI Hot Plug Specification, revision 1.0PCI-X Addendum (revision 1.0) to the PCI Local Bus
Specification
•Third-
generation Fibre Channel–Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) standard
• Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2) standard
• Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS)
•U.S. a
nd
international safety and emissions standards
Environmental specifications
Table 2 lists the HBA environmental specifications.
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