Q-Logic 2310FL Network Card User Manual


 
1 – Introduction
Features
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500 meters at the data rate of 1 Gbps; less than 300 meters at the data rate of
2Gbps).
With its increased connectivity and performance, Fibre Channel is the I/O
technology preferred and used by system designers.
1.4
Features
Compliance with PCI Local Bus Specification revision 2.2
Compliance with PCI-X Addendum (revision 1.0) to the PCI Local Bus
Specification
Compliance with Third Generation Fibre Channel-Physical and Signaling
Interface (FC-PH-3) standard
Compliance with Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2) standard
Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions standards
Support for bus master DMA
Fast!UTIL BIOS utility to customize the configuration parameters on the QLA23xx
HBA and attached drives
Supports Fibre Channel protocol-SCSI (FCP-SCSI) and IP
Supports point-to-point fabric connection (F-PORT FABRIC LOGIN)
Supports Fibre Channel security protocol (FC-SP) using DH-CHAP (Solaris
SPARC 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 only)
Supports fabric device management interface (FDMI) on the following operating
systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Red Hat Linux 8 and 9,
Advanced Server 2.1; SuSE SLES 8; Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 and 9
Using FDMI, storage area network (SAN) administrators can view device-specific
information (for example, driver version, firmware version, and model number)
from a central console, regardless of the device manufacturer. This information
is kept at the FC switch and viewed through the switch's management application
or third party SAN management applications.