Adapter Features
14 FCA2214/FCA2214DC PCI-X Host Bus Adapters for Linux, NetWare, and Windows Installation
Guide
Adapter Features
The FCA2214/FCA2214DC HBAs are 2-Gb, high-performance Direct Memory
Access (DMA) bus master host adapters designed for high-end systems. The
performance is derived from the ISP2312 chips.
These HBAs have the following features:
■ Combines a powerful Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) processor,
a Fibre Channel protocol manager (FPM) with 2-Gb Fibre Channel
transceivers, and a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) or peripheral
component interconnect-extended (PCI-X) local bus interface in a single-chip
solution.
■ Supports Private Loop Direct Attach (PLDA) and Fabric Loop Attach (FLA)
connections.
■ Fast!UTIL BIOS utility to customize the configuration parameters on the
adapter and attached drives.
■ Supports bus master DMA.
■ Supports Fibre Channel protocol-SCSI (FCP-SCSI), IP, and Fibre
Channel-Virtual Interface (FC-VI) protocols.
■ Supports point-to-point fabric connection (F-PORT FABRIC LOGIN).
■ Complies with:
— PCI Local Bus Specification revision 2.2.
— PCI-X Addendum (revision 1.0) to the PCI Local Bus Specification.
— Third-generation Fibre Channel-Physical and Signaling Interface
(FC-PH-3) standard.
— Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2) standard.
— U.S. and international safety and emissions standards