host bus adapter for Windows and Linux installation guide
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Introduction
Overview
This introduction to the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) includes:
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Product Description
The HBA has the following characteristics:
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Robust suite of software supporting Windows Advanced Server Limited
Edition v1.2 and Linux Red Hat Advanced Workstation v2.1.
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Optical small form factor (LC) interface LC Fibre connector.
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Embedded optical short-wave laser, multi-mode Fibre Channel interface.
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Designed using a single custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC).
The custom ASIC implements a very high performance, multi-class,
multi-protocol Fibre Channel host adapter with a 64-bit PCI or PCI-X bus
connection.
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66/100/133MHz PCI-X 1.0a and PCI 2.2 compatibility.
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266MIPs onboard processor, an embedded 1GB/2GB SERDES, and a high
performance unified QDR SRAM.
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Controlled by a 266 MHz, 32-bit Intel StrongARM RISC processor.
