Table 2.2 Hardware and Software Requirements

Component Requirements

For Solaris SPARC hardware environments

Hardware

Any Sun Microsystems computer with a 3.3 V PCI slot

 

 

Software

Solaris 8 operating environment

 

 

Firmware

OpenBoot PROM, version 2.1 or greater

 

 

For Intel IA-32 or IA-64 hardware environments

 

 

Hardware

Any Intel-compatible system with 3.3 V PCI slots

 

 

 

Windows Server (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003)

Software

Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Caldera, Turbo),

 

NetWare, and UnixWare.

 

 

Firmware

Any Intel-compatible BIOS system

 

 

2.2Features

This section provides an overview of the PCI-X Interface, the PCI Express Interface, and the FC Interface for the 2 Gbit/s family of host adapters.

2.2.1PCI-X Interface

PCI-X interfaces I/O components to the processor and memory subsystems in equipment ranging from PCs to servers. The PCI-X interface operates as a 64-bit DMA bus master capable of 64-bit addressing.

The PCI-X interface includes the following features:

•Full 64-bit DMA bus master

•LSIFC929X/LSIFC919X functionality:

–Zero wait-state bus master data bursts up to 1 Kbyte

–Host adapters comply with PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev. 2.2

–3.3 V interface

•Serial EEPROM configuration storage

•Host adapters comply with PCI-X/133 Local Bus Specification, Rev. 1.0a

Features

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