Related documentation
This Installation and User’s Guide contains setup and installation instructions for your expansion card, including information about getting started and how to configure your expansion card.
In addition to this Installation and User’s Guide, see the related documentation on the following Resource CDs:
•Brocade* Enterprise and Entry SAN Switch Module SBCEBFCSW \ SBCEBFCESW Resource CD
•Brocade* 4 Gb SAN Switch Module Resource CD
Features and specifications
The 4 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card has the following features:
•Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions standards
•Support for direct memory access (DMA)
•Support for bus mastering
•Fast!UTIL basic input/output system (BIOS) utility program to customize the configuration parameters on the Expansion Card and attached drives
•Support for Fibre Channel protocol SCSI
•Support for
•Support for Fibre Channel service (classes 2 and 3)
The Fibre Channel Expansion Card has the following specifications:
Table 1. Fibre Channel Expansion Card specifications
Type |
| Specification |
|
| |
Fibre Channel specifications | • Bandwidth: 4 Gb per second maximum at | |
|
| per second maximum at |
| • Support for both | |
| • Support for | |
|
| Login |
| • Support for FCAL public loop profile: | |
| • Support for Fibre Channel services class 2 and 3 | |
| • Support for FCP SCSI initiator and target operation | |
| • Support for | |
| • Copper interface ac coupled | |
|
| |
Processor | ||
| Fibre Channel ports. Each port provides: | |
| • | RISC processor |
| • | Integrated serializer/deserializer |
| • Receive direct memory access (DMA) sequencer | |
| • | Frame buffer |
| • | |
|
| |
Host data transfer | ||
| second | |
|
| |
RAM | 512 KB sync burst SRAM per channel supporting parity protection | |
|
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2 | Intel® Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps: Installation and User’s Guide |
