Apple 7600 Series, 7600/200 Series manual Preface

Preface

The Apple Peripheral Connect Interface (PCI) Dual-Attached FDDI Card is a 100 megabit per second (Mbps) single-slot Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) card for use with the Apple Network Server. The card and its associated driver provide physical and data-link services under the TCP/IP protocol as defined by the ANSI X3T9.5 specifications for FDDI.

IMPORTANT You must first install AIX 4.1.4.1 before you can use the

FDDI Card. See Instructions to Update AIX for the Network Server to

Version 4.1.4.1.

The Apple PCI Dual-Attached FDDI Card has the following features:

mcompliance with PCI Local Bus, version 2.1

monboard integrated FDDI Station Management (SMT)

m32-bit, zero wait state PCI Direct Memory Access (DMA) master

mup to 132 Mbps burst DMA rate

mPCI commands for efficient use of cache lines

msupport of optical fiber media

msupport of Dual Attachment for direct attachment to network ring

m128K of local buffering

mMotorola MC68840 FDDI chipset

These capabilities are all available as soon as the card is installed in the

Network Server. No special configuring is required.