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.

Table 2 HBA environmental specifications
Environment
Minimum Maximum
Operating temperature
0 °C/32 °F 55 °C/13 1 °F
Storage temperature
-20 °C/-4 °F 70 °C/1 58 °F
Relative humid
ity (noncondensing)
10% 90%
Storage humidity (noncondensing)
5%
95%
Physical specifications
Table 3 lists the HBA specifications.
Table 3 HBA spe
cifications
Type
Specification
Bus interface
64-bit, PCI-X
2.0 266-MHz DDR, compatible with 66/33 -MHz PCI
and
133/100/
66-MHz PCI-X
Conforms to P
CI
Local Bus Specification, revision 2.3, PCI Bus
Power Manage
ment Interface Specification, revision 1.1, PCI Hot
Plug Specification, revision 1.0
Fibre Channel specifications
Bus type: fiber optic media
Bus transfer rate: 4Gb/s FC increases aggregate throughput rate
to
800 MB/s in full-duplex mode
Central processing unit (CPU)
Single-chip design that includes a RISC processor, Fibre
Channel protocol manager, PCI-XDMA controller, integrated
serializer/deserializer (SEREDES), and electrical transceivers that
canautonegotiate adatarateof4 Gb/s
Memory
1-MB SRAM,
1-MB flash (SPI) , and 2-KB NVRAM (SPI)
Signal voltage
3.3 V (mode 1), 3.3 V/1.5 V (mode 2)
Data rate
4, 2, 1 Gb/s auto-negotiation (4.2480/2.1240/1.0625 Gb/s)
Onboard D
MA
Five-channel DMA controller: two data and one c ommand, one
auto-DMA request, and one auto-DMA response.
Frame Buffers
Integrated 10-KB frame buffer FIFOs (6-KB receive and
4-KB transmit) for each data channel.
Ports
Single or dual 4 Gb/s
Connectors
Small-fo
rm-factor fixed (SFF) multimode optic with LC connector
Form factor Low-profile MD2: 16.93 cm × 5.15 cm (6.7 in. × 2.5 in.)
Bracket size
Standard: 1.84 c m × 12.08 cm (0.73 in. × 4.76 in.)
Low-profile: 1.84 cm × 8.01 cm (0.73 in. × 3.15 in.)
Power consumption
~11.0 Watts
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HBA features