HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP A6828A Network Card User Manual


 
HPA6828A Adapter Overview
Features
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Features
The A6828A adapter and its driver conform to the ANSI T10 SCSI
Parallel Interace-3 (SPI-3) standard.
The A6828A adapter has the following features:
PCI interface
Full 64-bit (66 MHz) Direct Memory Access (DMA) bus master.
Zero wait-state bus master data bursts.
PCI Universal 3.3 V/5 V bus support.
Compliance with PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.2.
SCSI interface
One SCSI channel.
16-bit (Wide) Single Ended (SE)/Low Voltage Differential (LVD).
Enabling/disabling of on-board termination, with hardware
override (using a jumper).
68-pin Very High Density Cable Interconnect (VHDCI)
connector on the external channel.
68-pin High Density connector on the internal channel (not
supported on HP-UX systems).
Maximum data transfer rate of 160 MBytes/s per channel, with a
maximum cable length of 12 meters (with multiple SCSI devices)
and a maximum 15 SCSI devices on the single channel (not
including the A6828A adapter).
Fast, Ultra, Ultra2, and Ultra160 data transfer capability.
SCSI termination power (TERMPWR) source with auto-resetting
circuit breaker.
Flash EEPROM configured with HP part number (allows easy
identification through the ioscan command).
HBA characteristics
PCI4X adapter (66MHz, 64-bit data transfers).