User`s guide

1 – Introduction

Features

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500 meters at the data rate of 1 Gbps; less than 300 meters at the data rate of

2Gbps).

With its increased connectivity and performance, Fibre Channel is the I/O

technology preferred and used by system designers.

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Features

■ Compliance with PCI Local Bus Specification revision 2.2

■ Compliance with PCI-X Addendum (revision 1.0) to the PCI Local Bus

Specification

■ Compliance with Third Generation Fibre Channel-Physical and Signaling

Interface (FC-PH-3) standard

■ Compliance with Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2) standard

■ Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions standards

■ Support for bus master DMA

■ Fast!UTIL BIOS utility to customize the configuration parameters on the QLA23xx

HBA and attached drives

■ Supports Fibre Channel protocol-SCSI (FCP-SCSI) and IP

■ Supports point-to-point fabric connection (F-PORT FABRIC LOGIN)

■ Supports Fibre Channel security protocol (FC-SP) using DH-CHAP (Solaris

SPARC 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 only)

■ Supports fabric device management interface (FDMI) on the following operating

systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Red Hat Linux 8 and 9,

Advanced Server 2.1; SuSE SLES 8; Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 and 9

Using FDMI, storage area network (SAN) administrators can view device-specific

information (for example, driver version, firmware version, and model number)

from a central console, regardless of the device manufacturer. This information

is kept at the FC switch and viewed through the switch's management application

or third party SAN management applications.