hp StorageWorks fca2355 dual channel PCI host bus adapter - installation guide

fca2355 dual channel PCI host bus adapter installation guide 1–3
Introduction
The FCA2355 is both ANSI Fibre Channel and PCI Local Bus Compliant and
supports:
• Simultaneous full duplex 2 Gbytes/sec Fibre Channels deliver up to
400MBytes/sec
• Automatic speed negotiation
• Full fabric support using F_Port and FL_Port connections
• Onboard hardware context cache for superior fabric performance
• Support for concurrent use of multiple concurrent protocols (SCSI and IP)
• Full support for both FC service class 2 and 3
• Support for FC-Tape (FCP-2) devices
• 64-bit 66MHz PCI 2.2 compatibility
• End-to-end parity protection for high data integrity
•
Robust suite of software including IP and storage protocols
• Optical small form factor (LC) interface support
Collectively, these characteristics create a high-performance Fibre Channel HBA.
Boot BIOS Specifications
Boot BIOS is a set of x86 instructions in the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) flash ROM that
lets you designate a Fibre Channel attached drive as the boot drive. Boot BIOS works
with the existing system BIOS on Intel Pentium class PCI system boards.
Boot BIOS supports:
• Multiple topologies: Fabric Point-to-Point and FC-AL Private Loop
• Multiple boot compliance
• Supports Enhanced Disk Driver Services (EDD) Version 3.0
• A maximum of four Fibre Channel HBAs per server, depending on which
StorageWorks product you are using.
• Up to 256 LUNs, with up to eight LUN entries per target ID
• Detecting up to 99 devices per HBA
• Displaying a maximum of 16 devices during the boot process