Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
This is a brief introduction to the 64-bit PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) and includes:
■Specifications for major functional characteristics
■The standards with which the HBA complies
■The agency approvals granted to the HBA
These three topics are preceded by a brief product description.
Product Description
The HBA has the following characteristics:
■Single-slot PCI bus expansion board that interfaces a PCI bus to a fibre channel device (see Figure 1-1 and Table 1-1).
■Embedded optical short-wave laser, single-mode fibre channel interface.
■Supports 32-bit and 64-bit PCI transfers as a bus master during Direct Memory Access (DMA) transfers and 16-bit transfers as a slave during Processor Input/Output (PIO) operations.