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Note: This feature is not available on the IBM ERserver BladeCenter JS20
Fibre Channel Expansion Card.
v Support for Fibre Channel protocol small computer system interface
(FCP-SCSI) and Fibre Channel Internet protocol (FCP-IP)
v Support for point-to-point fabric connection (F-port fabric login)
v Support for Fibre Channel service (classes 2 and 3)
The expansion card has the following specifications:
Table 1. Expansion card specifications
Type Specification
Fibre Channel specifications
v Bus transfer rate: 200 MB per second maximum at
half-duplex and 400 MB per second maximum at
full-duplex
v Support for both FCP-SCSI and IP protocols
v Support for point-to-point fabric connection: F-Port
Fabric Login
v Support for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (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
v Copper interface ac coupled
Processor Single-chip design with two completely independent 2
Gb serial Fibre Channel ports. Each port provides:
v Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor
v Integrated serializer/deserializer
v Receive DMA sequencer
v Frame buffer
v Five-channel DMA controller
Host data transfer 64-bit, 100 MHz bus-master DMA data transfers to 800
MB per second
Random-access memory
(RAM)
512 KB sync burst static random-access memory (SRAM)
per channel supporting parity protection
BIOS or firmware code
read-only memory (ROM)
ROM 128 KB of flash memory (the flash is field
programmable)
Nonvolatile random-access
memory (NVRAM)
NVRAM 256 bytes, field programmable
Onboard DMA Five-channel DMA controller for each port: transmit,
receive, command, auto-request, and auto-response
Frame buffer first-in first-out
(FIFO)
Integrated 4 KB transmit and 6 KB receive frame buffer
FIFO for each data channel
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