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

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Aboutthisguide .......................... 7

Intendedaudience...................................... 7

Relateddocumentation.................................... 7

Documentconventionsandsymbols .............................. 7

HPtechnicalsupport..................................... 8

Helpfulwebsites .................................... 8

Subscriptionservice ................................... 9

1HBAfeatures........................... 11

Performance speciﬁcations .................................. 11

Environmental speciﬁcations................................. 12

Physical speciﬁcations ................................... 12

2 Installing the HBAs . . ...................... 13

Installationprerequisites .................................. 13

Installationprocedure ................................... 14

LEDindicators....................................... 15

3 Installing and conﬁ guringtheLinuxdriver............... 17

Prerequisites ....................................... 17

Installingthedriverkit ................................... 17

UsingtheRPM ...................................... 18

Installing the ﬁbreutilsRPM ................................. 18

Changingdriverparameters............................... 18

Proc ﬁlesystemsupport................................... 18

ConﬁguringtheHBAs ................................... 19

Starting the Conﬁgurationprotocol.............................. 19

Using the Driver Conﬁgurationmenu ............................. 20

TroubleshootingLinux.................................... 21

4InstallingtheWindowsdrivers................... 23

Prerequisites ....................................... 23

InstallingdriversusingtheSmartComponent.......................... 23

TroubleshootingWindows.................................. 24

UsingtheEventViewer................................. 24

ARegulatorycomplianceandsafety................. 25

Declaration of conformity for products marked with the FCC logo, United States only . . . . . . . . . 25

Laserdevice ....................................... 25

Lasersafetywarning.................................... 25

Certiﬁcation and classiﬁcationinformation........................... 25

Laserproductlabel..................................... 26

Internationalnoticesandstatements ............................. 26

Canadiannotice(avisCanadien) ............................ 26

EuropeanUnionnotice................................. 26

BSMI(Taiwan)..................................... 27

Japanesenotice.................................... 27

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AB379A and AB379B PCI-X 2.0 dual-port 4Gb FC adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows installation

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