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Appendix B. Adapter operating environment and
specifications
This appendix contains the IBM FAStT Host Adapter operating environment and
specification information.
Table 6. Adapter operating environment
Environment Minimum Maximum
Operating temperature 0°C (32°F) 55°C (131°F)
Storage temperature -20°C (-4°F) 70°C (158°F)
Relative humidity (noncondensing) 10% 90%
Storage humidity (noncondensing) 5% 95%
Table 7 (Page 1 of 2). Adapter specifications
Type Specification
Host bus Conforms to PCI Local Bus Specification, revision 2.2
PCI signaling environment 3.3 V and 5.0 V buses supported
PCI transfer rate 264 MB per second maximum burst rate for 33 MHz operation
(ISP2200A chip)
Supports dual address bus cycles
Fibre Channel
specifications
Bus type: fibre optic media (shortwave 50 micron)
Bus transfer rate: 100 MB per second maximum (200
full-duplex)
Supports both FCP-SCSI and IP protocols
Supports point-to-point fabric connection: F-Port Fabric Login
Supports FCAL public loop profile: FL-Port Login
Supports Fibre Channel services class 2 and 3
FCP SCSI initiator and target operation
Full-duplex operation
Processor Single chip design that includes a RISC processor, Fibre Channel
protocol manager, PCI DMA controller, and 1-gigabit transceivers
Host data transfer 64-bit, bus master DMA data transfers to 528 MB per second
RAM 128 KB of SRAM
BIOS ROM 128 KB of flash ROM in two 64 KB, software selectable banks.
The flash is field programmable.
NVRAM 256 bytes, field programmable
Onboard DMA Three independent DMA channels: two data and one command.
Integrated 4 KB frame buffer FIFO for each data channel
Connectors (external) SC-style connector that supports non-OFC, multimode fibre
optic cabling using 1 x 9 fibre optic transceiver module
Total cable length cannot exceed 500 meters
Two three-position, point-to-point cable (internal)
Form factor 17.8 cm x 10.7 cm (7.0 in. x 4.2 in.)
Operating power Less than 15 watts
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