IBM-AUSTRIA - PC-HW-Support    30 Aug 1999

PCI FIBRE CHANNEL ADAPTER: STATEMENT OF SUPPORT

    Record number:       H166306
    Device:              D/T8680
    Model:               M
    Part number:         P/N01K7297
    Hit count:           UHC00000
    Success count:       USC0000
    Publication code:    PC50
    Tip key:             018
    Date created:        O99/04/14
    Date last altered:   A99/04/14
    Owning B.U.:         USA


Abstract: PCI FIBRE CHANNEL ADAPTER: STATEMENT OF SUPPORT

TEXT:

This is a statement of support of the PCI Fibre Channel Adapter

PROBLEM ISOLATION AIDS:

•  The system is any of the following IBM servers:

•  The system is configured with the following option(s): Fibre Channel PCI Adapter P/N 01K7297

DETAILS:

The Netfinity Fibre Channel PCI Adapter will only be supported by IBM as an interface to the Netfinity Fibre Channel Controller.

Note: Only the default BIOS settings will be supported.
This means that, since the default condition for the BIOS on the adapter is disabled, then it will NOT be supported as the boot device.

The chart below shows the default (supported) settings.

  -----------------------------------------
  | SETTING                 | DEFAULT     |
  |-------------------------+-------------|
  | Host adapter BIOS       | Disabled    |
  | Enable LUNs             | Yes         |
  | Execution Throttle      | 255         |
  | Drivers load RISC code  | Enabled     |
  | Frame Size              | 1024        |
  | IOCB allocation         | 256 buffers |
  | Loop reset delay        | 5 seconds   |
  | Extended error logging  | Disabled    |
  | Port down retry count   | 0           |
  -----------------------------------------

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