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Chapter 4. FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter operating environment
and specifications
This chapter contains the DS4000 FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter operating environment
and specification information.
Table 5. FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter operating environment
Environment Minimum Maximum
Operating temperature 10° C (50° F) 35° C (95° F)
Storage temperature -20° C (-4° F) 70° C (158° F)
Relative humidity (noncondensing) 8% 80%
Storage humidity (noncondensing) 5% 95%
Table 6. FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter specifications
Type Specification
Host bus Conforms to PCI Local Bus Specification, revision 2.3 and
3.0, PCI-X Protocol Addendum to the PCI Local Bus
Specification, revision 2.0a, PCI-X Electrical and Mechanical
Addendum (revision 2.0a) to the PCI Local Bus
Specification, PCI Bus Power Management Interface
Specification revision 1.1, PCI Hot Plug Specification,
revision 1.0
PCI/PCI-X signaling
environment
3.3V (mode 1) and 1.5V (mode 2) buses supported
PCI/PCI-X transfer rate
v Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit PCI bus at 33 MHz and 64
MHz
v Support for 64-Bit PCI-X bus at 50 MHz, 100 MHz, and
133 MHz
v Support for 64-Bit PCI-X 2.0 bus at 266 MHz
v Support for dual address bus cycles
Fibre Channel specifications
v Fiber-optic media (shortwave multimode 50 micron cable)
v Bus transfer rate: 400MB per second maximum at
half-duplex and 800MB per second maximum at
full-duplex
v Interface chip: ISP2422 (PCI-X QLA24xx boards)
v Support for both FCP-SCSI and IP protocols
v Support for point-to-point fabric connection: F-Port Fabric
Login
v Support for FCAL public loop profile: FL-Port Login
v Support for Fibre Channel services class 2 and 3
v Support for FCP SCSI initiator and target operation
v Support for full-duplex operation
Processor Single-chip design that includes a RISC processor, Fibre
Channel protocol manager, PCI or PCI-X DMA controller,
and integrated serializer/deserializer (SERDES) and
electrical transceivers that can auto-negotiate a data rate of
4 GB per second
Host data transfer 64-Bit, bus-master DMA data transfers to 2112 MB per
second
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