Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About this book ..................................... ix
How this book is organized ............................... ix
Notices used in this book ................................ x
Part I. Hardware installation ....................................... 1
Chapter 1. Hardware overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What is Fibre Channel? ................................. 3
Fibre Channel adapter features ............................. 3
Chapter 2. Installing the adapter .......................... 5
Preinstallation procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing the IBM FAStT Host Adapter ........................ 6
Chapter 3. Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hardware problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System configuration problems ............................. 9
Fibre Channel problems ................................. 9
Part II. Software installation ....................................... 11
Chapter 4. Software overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 5. Installing the Windows NT and Windows 2000 device drivers 15
Installing Windows NT and Windows 2000 ..................... 16
Adding the Windows NT driver ............................ 16
Adding the Windows 2000 driver ........................... 17
Updating the Windows NT device driver ...................... 17
Updating the Windows 2000 device driver ..................... 18
Chapter 6. Installing the Novell NetWare device driver ........... 19
NetWare device driver files and parameters .................... 19
Installing the NetWare 5.1 device driver ....................... 19
Part III. Appendices ............................................. 21
Appendix A. Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fast!UTIL options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Appendix B. Adapter operating environment and specifications ..... 31
Appendix C. Getting help and technical assistance ............. 33
Before you call ..................................... 33
Appendix D. Warranty information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Warranty period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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