Appendix B. Adapter operating environment and specifications
This appendix contains the IBM FAStT Host Adapter operating environment and specification information.
Table 6. Adapter operating environment
Environment | Minimum | Maximum |
Operating temperature | 0°C (32°F) | 55°C (131°F) |
Storage temperature | 70°C (158°F) | |
Relative humidity (noncondensing) | 10% | 90% |
Storage humidity (noncondensing) | 5% | 95% |
Table 7 (Page 1 of 2). Adapter specifications
Type | Specification |
Host bus | Conforms to PCI Local Bus Specification, revision 2.2 |
PCI signaling environment | 3.3 V and 5.0 V buses supported |
PCI transfer rate | 264 MB per second maximum burst rate for 33 MHz operation |
| (ISP2200A chip) |
| Supports dual address bus cycles |
Fibre Channel | Bus type: fibre optic media (shortwave 50 micron) |
specifications | Bus transfer rate: 100 MB per second maximum (200 |
| |
| Supports both |
| Supports |
| Supports FCAL public loop profile: |
| Supports Fibre Channel services class 2 and 3 |
| FCP SCSI initiator and target operation |
| |
Processor | Single chip design that includes a RISC processor, Fibre Channel |
| protocol manager, PCI DMA controller, and |
Host data transfer | |
RAM | 128 KB of SRAM |
BIOS ROM | 128 KB of flash ROM in two 64 KB, software selectable banks. |
| The flash is field programmable. |
NVRAM | 256 bytes, field programmable |
Onboard DMA | Three independent DMA channels: two data and one command. |
| Integrated 4 KB frame buffer FIFO for each data channel |
Connectors (external) | |
| optic cabling using 1 x 9 fibre optic transceiver module |
| Total cable length cannot exceed 500 meters |
| Two |
Form factor | 17.8 cm x 10.7 cm (7.0 in. x 4.2 in.) |
Operating power | Less than 15 watts |
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