Hba Features; Performance Specifications - HP AB479A Installation Manual

1 HBA features

This chapter describes the features of the PCI-X 2.0 single-port HBA (product number AB479A) and the
PCI-X 2.0 dual-port HBA (product number AB379A).
• Performance
• Environmental
• Physical specifications, page 10
Performance specifications
The PCI-X 2.0 4Gb FC adapters are 4-Gb, high-performance direct memory access (DMA) bus master
HBAs designed for high-end systems.
These HBAs have 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-extended (PCI-X) local bus interface in a single-chip
solution
• Support Fabric Loop Attach (FLA) connections
• Support bus master DMA
• Supports SCSI-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 with:
• PCI Local Bus Specification revision 2.3
• PCI-X Protocol Addendum to the PCI Local Bus Specification, revision 2.0a
• PCI-X Electrical and Mechanical Addendum (revision 2.0a) to the PCI Local Bus Specification
• PCI Bus Power Management Interface 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. and international safety and emissions standards
specifications, page 9
specifications, page 10
PCI-X 2.0 single-port and dual-port 4Gb FC adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows
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