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

-20°C (-4°F)

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

 

full-duplex)

 

Supports both FCP-SCSI and IP protocols

 

Supports point-to-point fabric connection: F-Port Fabric Login

 

Supports FCAL public loop profile: FL-Port Login

 

Supports Fibre Channel services class 2 and 3

 

FCP SCSI initiator and target operation

 

Full-duplex operation

Processor

Single chip design that includes a RISC processor, Fibre Channel

 

protocol manager, PCI DMA controller, and 1-gigabit transceivers

Host data transfer

64-bit, bus master DMA data transfers to 528 MB per second

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)

SC-style connector that supports non-OFC, multimode fibre

 

optic cabling using 1 x 9 fibre optic transceiver module

 

Total cable length cannot exceed 500 meters

 

Two three-position, point-to-point cable (internal)

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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