Hardware Installation and User’s Guide
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Hardware Specifications and Features
3.2
Operating System Support
These operating systems are fully validated and supported for the GDT8522RZ and
GDT8622RZ ICP RAID Controller products:
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Microsoft* Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, Service Pack 3
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Novell* NetWare* 6.0
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SCO* Openserver* 5.0.6a
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SCO UnixWare* 8.0
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Red Hat* Linux* 7.3 (2.4 kernel)
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SuSe* Linux 8.0 Professional
These operating systems are supported with limited compatibility validation:
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Windows 2000 Server
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Windows NT 4.0 Server and Enterprise Server, Service Pack 6a or higher
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Novell NetWare 5.1 (support pack 2a or higher)
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SCO UnixWare 7.1.1
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Red Hat* Linux* 7.0
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Red Hat Linux* 7.2 (2.4 kernel)
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Debian Linux 3.0
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Caldera Linux 3.1
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Mandrake* Linux 8.2
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TurboLinux* 7.0 Server
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FreeBSD* 4.5
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FreeBSD 4.6
3.3
Supported Fibre Channel Technology
Fibre Channel (FC) is an open industry-standard, high-speed serial data transfer interface
technology that can be used to connect systems and storage in a number of topologies. FC
can be viewed simply as a transport vehicle for the supported command set (such as SCSI)
and is, in fact, unaware of the content of the information being transported. FC simply
packs data in frames, transports them to the appropriate devices, and provides error
checking.
3.3.1
ICP RAID Controllers and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-
AL)
The GDT8522RZ and GDT8622RZ ICP RAID Controller products have two 2Gb Fibre
Channel (FC) HSSDC external connectors. The controllers support a Fibre Channel
Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) topology that uses the SCSI FCP protocol while operating in
half duplex mode.
