
1 – Introduction
Features
1-2 FC2354601-00 A
With its increased connectivity and performance, Fibre Channel is the I/O
technology preferred and used by system designers.
1.4
Features■Compliance with PCI Local Bus Specification revision 2.2
■Compliance with PCI-X Addendum (revision 1.0) to the PCI Local Bus
Specification
■Compliance with Third Generation Fibre Channel-Physical and Signaling
Interface (FC-PH-3) standard
■Compliance with Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2) standard
■Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions standards
■Support for bus master DMA
■Fast!UTIL BIOS utility to customize the configuration parameters on the
QLA23xx HBA and attached drives
■Two independent channels on a single HBA
■Supports Fibre Channel protocol-SCSI (FCP-SCSI), IP, and Fibre
Channel-virtual interface (FC-VI) protocols
■Supports point-to-point fabric connection (F-PORT FABRIC LOGIN)