HP AB379A and AB379B PCI-X 2.0 Dual-Port 4Gb FC Adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows Installation Guide

1HBAfeatures
This chapter describes the features of the PCI-X 2.0 dual-port HBAs.
•Performancespecifications, page 11
•Environmentalspecifications, page 12
•Physicalspecifications, page 12
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.
The AB379B 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-extended (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:
•PCILocalBusSpecification revision 2.3
• PCI-X Protocol Addendum to the PCI Local Bus Specification, revision 2.0a
•PCI-XEl
ectrical and Mechanical Addendum (revision 2.0a) to the PCI Local Bus Specification
• PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification revision 1.1
•PCIHotPlugSpecification, 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
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