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64-bit PCI-to-Fibre Channel
Host Adapter
Technical Data
HHBA-5101
Features
Fibre Channel Data
Transfer Rates:
– Up to 100 MB/s
(Half Duplex)
– Up to 200 MB/s
(Full Duplex)
GBIC Physical Interface
Provides Flexibility for
Optical or Copper
Connections
Supports Fibre Channel
Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
including Public Loop and
Fabric (F- and FL-Port
Login)
One or Less PCI Bus
Interrupt per SCSI I/O
Operation
64-bit Universal PCI
Interface, Compliant with
PCI 2.1
PCI Hot Plug Support
Supports PCI Dual Address
Cycles (64-bit PCI
Addressing)
Workstation and Server
Applications
Storage Area Networks
(SANs)
Data Warehousing
Clustering
Remote Back-Up
Near On-Line Storage
Video Editing & CAD
Description
The HHBA-5101 is a 64-bit
PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus
Adapter for mass storage
applications that require FC-AL
or Fabric, Class 3 and SCSI upper
layer protocol handling.
At the heart of the HHBA-5101 is
the HPFC-5100 Tachyon TL Fibre
Channel Interface Controller IC.
The Tachyon TL controller is
based on the proven TACHYON
hardware state machine
architecture. This architecture
enables performance to scale
proportional to the system CPU
resources available and avoids
bottlenecks associated with on-
chip processors. The TACHYON
architecture is also designed to
realize the full potential of Fibre
Channel by providing the highest
levels of concurrency via
numerous independent functional
hardware blocks that enable
parallel control, command and
data processing. The result is
minimized latency and I/O
overhead coupled with the
highest levels of parallelism to
provide maximum I/O rates and
bandwidth.
Software Driver Support
The HHBA-5101 supports a
comprehensive set of software
drivers for major Operating
Systems: Microsoft
Windows NT
,
Novell NetWare
, SCO UnixWare
,
Solaris x86, and an I20 HDM.
Additional drivers will be available
soon.
Product Offering
The HHBA-5101 is available in five
configurations. The HHBA-5101xK
is a kit which includes an adapter
card, manual and OS drivers on
diskette. In addition, there are two
kit options which include an
industry standard GBIC:
HHBA-5101xK-01 with an 850 nm
optical GBIC or HHBA-5101xK-02
with an HSSDC Copper GBIC. The
HHBA-5101x and HHBA-5101xP
are single and bulk packaged
adapters, respectively.