1 – Introduction
Features
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With its increased connectivity and performance, Fibre Channel is the I/O
technology preferred and used by system designers.
1.4
Features
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Compliance with
PCI Local Bus Specification
revision 2.2
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Compliance with
PCI-X Addendum (revision 1.0) to the PCI Local Bus
Specification
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Compliance with
Third Generation Fibre Channel-Physical and Signaling
Interface
(FC-PH-3) standard
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Compliance with
Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop
(FC-AL-2) standard
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Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions standards
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Support for bus master DMA
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Fast!
UTIL BIOS utility to customize the configuration parameters on the QLA23
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HBA and attached drives
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Two independent channels on a single HBA
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Supports Fibre Channel protocol-SCSI (FCP-SCSI) and IP
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Supports point-to-point fabric connection (F-PORT FABRIC LOGIN)
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Supports Fibre Channel security protocol (FC-SP) using DH-CHAP (Solaris
SPARC 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 only)
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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.
