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Introduction, Overview, Product description – HP StorageWorks Modular Arrays User Manual

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Compaq Confidential – Need to Know Required

Writer: Bill Reitz Project: Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit PCI-To-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter User Guide Comments:

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Chapter

1

Introduction

Overview

This is a brief introduction to the 64-bit PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus
Adapter (HBA) and includes:

Specifications for major functional characteristics

The standards with which the HBA complies

The agency approvals granted to the HBA

These three topics are preceded by a brief product description.

Product Description

The HBA has the following characteristics:

Single-slot PCI bus expansion board that interfaces a PCI bus to a fibre
channel device (see Figure 1-1 and Table 1-1).

Embedded optical short-wave laser, single-mode fibre channel interface.

Supports 32-bit and 64-bit PCI transfers as a bus master during Direct
Memory Access (DMA) transfers and 16-bit transfers as a slave during
Processor Input/Output (PIO) operations.