Intel SEBFCM4 manual Inventory checklist, Notices and statements used in this book

Table 1. Fibre Channel Expansion Card specifications (continued)

Type	Specification
BIOS ROM	BIOS ROM 1 MB of flash memory (the flash is field programmable)
NVRAM	NVRAM 512 bytes, field programmable
Onboard DMA	Five-channel DMA controller for each port: transmit, receive,
	command, auto-request, and auto-response
Frame buffer FIFO	Integrated 4 KB transmit and 6 KB receive frame buffer FIFO for
	each data channel
Dimensions	Approximately 9.35 cm x 13.14 cm (3.683 in. x 5.275 in.)
Operating power	Approximately 10 watts

Inventory checklist

The Expansion Card option package includes the following items:

•Intel® Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps

•Intel® Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps Resource CD

Notices and statements used in this book

The following types of notices and statements are used in this book:

•Note: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.

•Important: These notices provide information or advice that might help you avoid inconvenient or problem situations.

•Attention: These notices indicate possible damage to programs, devices, or data. An attention notice is placed just before the instruction or situation in which damage could occur.

•Caution: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially hazardous to you. A caution statement is placed just before the description of a potentially hazardous procedure step or situation.

•Danger: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely hazardous to you. A danger statement is placed just before the description of a potentially lethal or extremely hazardous procedure step or situation.

Major components of the Fibre Channel Expansion Card

The ISP2422 chip provides a PCI-X local bus interface and two completely independent 4 Gb serial Fibre Channel ports. Each port has aRISC processor, an integrated serializer / deserializer (SERDES), a receive DMA sequencer, frame buffer, five-channel DMA controller, and an external memory interface in a single-chip solution.

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