AH400A/AH401A - HP PCIe 8Gb 1 port, 2 port, and 4Gb Fibre Channel QLogic HBAs using Linux, Windows, and HP-UX OS's Installation Guide, October 2008

1 HBA features
This chapter describes HBA features such as:
• Environmental specifications
• Physical specifications
• Media specifications
Environmental specifications
Table 1-1 “Environmental specifications” lists the HBAs environmental specifications.
Table 1-1 Environmental specifications
MaximumMinimumEnvironment
55°C/131°F0°C/32°FOperating temperature
70°C/158°F–20°C/–40°FStorage temperature
95%5%Relative humidity (non-condensing)
N/A100 lf/minute (minimum)Airflow
Physical specifications
Table 1-2 HBA specifications
SpecificationComponent
Complies with:
• PCI Express Base Specification 1.0a for 4Gb HBAs
• PCI Express Base Specification 2.0 for 8Gb HBAs
• PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification 1.0
• PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification 1.1
Host bus
Bus type: fiber optic media
Bus transfer rate:
• Single channel HBA – 4Gb/s FC increases aggregate throughput rate to 800
MB/s in full-duplex mode
• Single channel HBA – 8Gb/s + 1.6Gb/s
• Dual channel HBA – 4 Gb/s FC increases aggregate throughput rate to 1.6
Gb/s in full-duplex mode
• Dual channel HBA – 8 Gb/s 3.2Gb/s
Fibre Channel specifications
Single-chip design that includes the following:
• RISC processor
• Fibre Channel protocol manager
• PCI-e DMA controller
• integrated serializer/deserializer (SERDES)
• electrical transceivers that can auto negotiate a data rate of 1, 2, 4 or 8Gb/s
Central processing unit (CPU)
1 MB SRAM, 1 MB flash (SPI), and 2 KB NVRAM (SPI)Memory
3.3 V (mode 1), 3.3 V/1.5 V (mode 2)Signal voltage
1 Gb/s: 500 meters 50/125 µm fiber, 300 meters 62.5/125 µm fiber
2 Gb/s: 300 meters 50/125 µm fiber, 150 meters 62.5/125 µm fiber
4 Gb/s: 150 meters 50/125 µm fiber, 70 meters 62.5/125 µm fiber
8Gb/s: 70 meters 50/125 µm fibre, 21 meters 62.5/125 µm fibre
Distance
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