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The Apple Peripheral Connect Interface (PCI) Dual-Attached FDDI Card is a
100 megabit per second (Mbps) single-slot Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(FDDI) card for use with the Apple Network Server. The card and its
associated driver provide physical and data-link services under the TCP/IP
protocol as defined by the ANSI X3T9.5 specifications for FDDI.
IMPORTANT
You must first install AIX 4.1.4.1 before you can use the
FDDI Card. See Instructions to Update AIX for the Network Server to
Version 4.1.4.1.
The Apple PCI Dual-Attached FDDI Card has the following features:
m compliance with PCI Local Bus, version 2.1
m onboard integrated FDDI Station Management (SMT)
m 32-bit, zero wait state PCI Direct Memory Access (DMA) master
m up to 132 Mbps burst DMA rate
m PCI commands for efficient use of cache lines
m support of optical fiber media
m support of Dual Attachment for direct attachment to network ring
m 128K of local buffering
m Motorola MC68840 FDDI chipset
These capabilities are all available as soon as the card is installed in the
Network Server. No special configuring is required.
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