I/O Subsystems | Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 |
3.4Gigabit Ethernet
A single Broadcom* BCM5704C controller provides the
3.5Serial ATA (SATA)
The ICH5 provides a Serial ATA (SATA) interface with a transfer rate of up to 1.5GB/s. The Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard has a standard
3.6Fibre Channel
The Intel® Fibre Channel Module seats into a
Two independent 2 Gbps Fibre Channel ports
Support for Fibre Channel virtual interface (VI) protocol
Automatically negotiates Fibre Channel bit rate (1 or 2 Gbps)
Supports up to 400 MBps sustained Fibre Channel data transfer rate
1 MB SRAM per port
Data and code parity protection
Host intervention not required to execute complete SCSI, IP, or VI operations
Works with the Qlogic SANsurfer* Management Suite and other Qlogic FC cards
For more information, please refer to the Intel® Fibre Channel Module User Guide.
3.7Firmware Hubs
The Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4 Mainboard has a combined total of 4MB flash memory that serves as the firmware hub (FWH) for the system BIOS. The system BIOS fits into 2MB of flash, but twice that is required to support the rolling BIOS feature. See Chapter 5 for more information on the rolling BIOS.
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