Hardware and Software Installation Procedure
Product Overview and Requirements
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Product Overview and Requirements
The AB290A PCI-X Combination cards have the following features and requirements:
•
PCI-X 133 MHz
capable card. It can operate at 32-bit or 64-bit modes and is supported in the following
frequencies: PCI 66, PCI-X 66, and PCI-X 133. Best performance is achieved by putting the card in a
“
dual-rope
” PCI-X 133 slot. To identify which slots are the dual rope slots in a particular system, please
refer to the hardware users’ guide for each system. The AB290A card is
not
supported in PCI 33 bus
mode. It operates in
3.3V slots only
.
•
Requires either HP-UX 11i v 2.0 (64 bit) operating environment (OE) of
September 2004 (or later)
or
the two software bundles,
IEther-00
(for LAN) and
scsiU320-00
(for SCSI), from the 11i v 1.0 of
December 2004 (or later)
software distribution.
— For 11i v 2.0, your system needs to be on the September 2004 operating environment or later, so you
need to load the entire OE.
— For systems that are already running 11i v 1.0, you can either just load the required software driver
bundles, or you can load the entire OE and you will automatically get the two drivers you need for this
card.
•
The Gigabit Ethernet ports support use of
Jumbo Frames
.
•
Supports HP
Serviceguard
for the whole card and Auto-Port Aggregation (
APA
) for high availability of
the 1000Base-T ports.
•
The Gigabit Ethernet ports support virtual LANs (
VLANs
). This feature is described in
Using HP-UX
VLANs
on
http://docs.hp.com
.
•
Supports PCI-X online addition/replacement (
OLA/R
) on specified systems. For instructions on how to
perform online addition and replacement (OLAR) for PA-RISC-based systems running HP-UX 11i v 1.0,
see
Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals
. For instructions on performing OL* for Itanium-based systems
and PA-RISC systems running HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 or later, refer to the
Interface Card
OL* Support Guide
.
•
Supports configuration through
SAM
or command line.
•
Online/Offline Diagnostics.
•
Ignite UX support.
•
Maximum data rate of 320 Mbytes/s over each SCSI channel.
•
Supports boot over the 1000Base-T and SCSI interfaces.
•
SCSI T10 Parallel Interface SPI-4 operates as two 16-bit wide, synchronous or asynchronous, low-voltage
differential (LVD) or single ended (SE) interfaces.
•
Supports vPars.
•
The AB290A does not support any configuration where it is in the middle of the SCSI bus (using “Y”
cables or simultaneous internal and external connections.
•
SCSI termination is enabled by default. HP only supports configurations where the termination is
enabled.
The termination Disabled LED will glow when termination is disabled (basically during unsupported
configurations)-- for example, when the terminators on that bus have been disabled. The channel A
termination disable LED will only glow if the jumper is installed across both posts. The channel B
termination disable LED will glow if the jumper is installed or if cables are connected to both the internal
and external channel B connectors (this is not a supported configuration).
