IBM Netfinity Fibre Channel PCI Adapter User manual

Netfinity Fibre Channel PCI Adapter
Installation and User's Handbook

Netfinity Fibre Channel PCI Adapter
Installation and User's Handbook
IBM

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Contents
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What is Fibre Channel? ......................... 1
Fibre Channel Adapter Features ................... 1
Chapter 2. Installing the Adapter .................. 3
Preinstallation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 3. Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Hardware Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System Configuration Problems .................... 7
Fibre Channel Problems ........................ 7
Chapter 4. Getting Help, Service, and Information ....... 9
Service Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Before You Call for Service ...................... 11
Getting Customer Support and Service ............... 11
Purchasing Additional Services .................... 17
Ordering Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Appendix A. Fast!UTIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Fast!UTIL Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Appendix B. Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Appendix C. Product Warranties and Notices .......... 27
Warranty Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Safety Information
1
DANGER
To avoid a shock hazard, do not connect or
disconnect any cables or perform installation,
maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product
during an electrical storm.
To avoid shock hazard:
– The power cord must be connected to a properly
wired and earthed receptacle.
– Any equipment to which this product will be
attached must also be connected to properly
wired receptacles.
When possible, use one hand to connect or
disconnect signal cables to prevent a possible shock
from touching two surfaces with different electrical
potentials.
Electrical current from power, telephone, and
communications cables is hazardous. To avoid
shock hazard, connect and disconnect cables as
described following when installing, moving, or
opening covers of this product or attached devices.
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To Connect
1. Turn Everything OFF.
2. First, attach all cables to devices.
3. Attach signal cables to receptacles.
4. Attach power cord(s) to outlet.
5. Turn device ON.
To Disconnect
1. Turn Everything OFF.
2. First, remove power cord(s) from
outlet.
3. Remove signal cables from
receptacles.
4. Remove all cables from devices.
NOTE: In the UK, by law, the
telephone cable must be connected
after the power cord.
NOTE: In the UK, the power cord
must be disconnected after the
telephone cable.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Thank you for selecting the IBM Netfinity Fibre Channel PCI
Adapter. This adapter is a high-performance, direct memory access
(DMA) bus master host adapter designed for high-end systems. The
performance is derived from the ISP2100 chip, making this PCI
adapter a leading-edge host adapter. The ISP2100 combines a
powerful RISC processor, a fibre protocol module (FPM) with
gigabit transceivers, and a 64-bit peripheral component interconnect
(PCI) local bus interface in a single-chip solution. The Netfinity
Fibre Channel PCI Adapter supports all Fibre Channel (FC)
peripherals that support private loop direct attach (PLDA) and
fabric loop attach (FLA). Installation of the Netfinity Fibre Channel
PCI Adapter is quick and easy.
What is Fibre Channel?
Fibre channel technology is outlined in the Information Systems -
Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (small computer system interface -
FCP) standard, revision 12, 30 May 1995. Fibre Channel is a
high-speed data transport technology used for mass storage and
networking. It connects mainframes, super computers, workstations,
storage devices, and servers. Using a Fibre Channel arbitrated loop
(FC-AL), 126 devices can be supported, compared to 15 devices with
Ultra SCSI.
Fibre Channel supports data transfer rates of 100 MB per second,
which is more than twice that of Ultra SCSI (40 MB per second). A
multimode optical interface is used for distances up to 500 meters.
With increased connectivity and performance, Fibre Channel is the
technology preferred and used by system designers.
Fibre Channel Adapter Features
Fibre Channel adapter features include:
Compliance with Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface
- 3 (PC-PH-3), revision 9.2
Compliance with Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL),
revision 4.5
Compliance with Intel PCI version 2.1 specification
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Compliance with U.S. and international safety and emissions
standards
Support for bus master DMA
Fast!UTIL basic input/output system (BIOS) utility program to
customize the configuration parameters on the Netfinity Fibre
Channel PCI Adapter and attached drives
Mixed peripheral support includes:
Simultaneous mixed-peripheral configurations and startable
device support for FC devices that meet the following standards:
FC-PLDA, revision 1.10, 17 February 1997
FC-FLA, revision 2.1, 12 July 1997
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