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  • Page 1

    AB465A PCI-X 2-P ort 2 Gigabit F ibre Channel and 2-P ort Gigabit Ethernet Combination Card Installation Guide F or fcd Driver V ersions B.11.11.04 and B11.23.02 and F or igelan Driver V ersions B.11.11.17 and B.11.23.05 HP 9000 and HP Integrity Systems Manufacturing P art Number : AB465-90001 E0205 U .S .A. © Copyright 2005 Hewlett-P ackard Devel[...]

  • Page 2

    2 Legal Notices The information in this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlett-P ackard makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual, including , but not limited to , the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness f or a particular purpose . Hewlett-P ackard shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or [...]

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    Hardware and Software Installation Procedure Step 1: Access the system card ba y 3 Hardwar e and Softwar e Installation Procedur e These instructions apply to AB465A PCI-X 2-P ort 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 2-P ort Gigabit Ethernet combination cards which can operate on HP-UX 11i v 1.0 of December 2004 or HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 or later[...]

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    Hardware and Softw are Installation Procedure Step 4: Connect the fibre channel devices 4 • Attach the free end of the LAN cable to any unused port on the switch. The Base-T connections on the card operate at 10 or 100 Mbit/s in either full- or half-duplex modes and at 1000 Mbit/s only in full-duplex mode. Set the ports on the card and on your s[...]

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    Hardware and Software Installation Procedure Step 6: Install the latest software. 5 • Check the Release Notes for GigEther -01 and FibrChanl-01 to see if you need to install any appropriate patches for your system. Release Notes are available on the W eb at http://docs.hp .com under Networking and Communications. Step 6: Install the latest softwa[...]

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    Hardware and Softw are Installation Procedure Step 8: V erify the fibre channel installation 6 Step 8: V erify the fibre channel installation • T o verify that the fc driver appears for each installed card, enter: ioscan -fk The ioscan output might look like the following: Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description fc 4 1/0/8/1/0/4/[...]

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    Hardware and Software Installation Procedure Optional Step: Configure Jumbo Frames Size (Jumbo frames are supported only at 1000 Mbit/s) 7 • Installation is complete when you have successfully run linkloop , ping and netstat . T o configure remote systems , see the Ethernet Support Guide available on the web at http://docs.hp .com. Do this step[...]

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    Hardware and Softw are Installation Procedure For Further Information 8 An alternative wa y to temporarily configure jumbo frame size is to enter: lanadmin -M mtu_size PPA_number . Using lanadmin is temporary because it will not preserve your settings across reboots. The PPA_number is the one we obtained from the output of lanscan. F or using Jumb[...]

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    Hardware and Software Installation Procedure Network Configuration W orksheet 9 Network Configuration W orksheet Fill out one worksheet for the networking data of each LAN port on the combination card you are installing . Note 1 : T o configure values permanently , edit the configuration files using SAM or an editor such as “vi”. Using lan[...]

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    Hardware and Softw are Installation Procedure Cable Specifications 10 Note 3 : The valid MTU size for normal frames using the igelan driver on HP-UX 11i v 1.0 or v 2.0 is 1500 bytes. F or J umbo Frames , the valid MTU size on HP-UX 11i v 1.0 is 9000 , and for HP-UX 11i v 2.0, it is a number in the range of 1501 to 9000 bytes. Cable Specifications[...]

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    Hardware and Software Installation Procedure 11 Figure 1 AB465A PCI-X 2-P ort 2Gb FC/ 2-P ort 1000B-T Combination Card (Duplex LC) Fibre Channel Connectors PCI-X 133 MHz 1000Base-T Connectors (RJ-45) Speed LEDS (Port 2) 1Gb 2Gb Speed LEDS (Port 1) 2Gb 1Gb Speed LEDs Off = 10 Mbit/s Green = 100 Mbit/s Y ellow = 1000 Mbit/s Activity/Link LEDs Flashin[...]

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    Hardware and Softw are Installation Procedure Features 12 F eatures The AB465A PCI-X Combination cards have the following features: • PCI-X 133 MHz capable card. It can operate at 32-bit or 64-bit compatible modes and is supported in the following frequencies: PCI 66, PCI-X 66, and PCI-X 133. Best performance is achieved by putting the card in a [...]

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    Hardware and Software Installation Procedure Interoperability: Supported Systems 13 Interoperability: Supported Systems Supported Systems The combination card is supported in the HP Integrity (Itanium  or Itanium  2-based) systems specified in T able 3. The combination card is supported in the HP 9000 (P A-RISC processor-based) systems speci[...]

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    Card Ph ysical and Environmental Specs and Regulatory Information Card Ph ysical and En vironmental Specifications 14 Card Physical and Environmental Specs and Regulatory Information Card Physical and Environmental Specifications F ollowing are the product physical and environmental specifications of the AB465A PCI-X 2-Port 2 Gigabit Fibre Chann[...]

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    Card Ph ysical and Environmental Specs and Regulatory Information Card Ph ysical and En vironmental Specifications 15 Electromagnetic Compatibility This document contains regulatory statements for the United States and the European community . Operating Altitude 3,000 meters (9900) ft Non-operating Altitude 4,500 meters (14850 ft)[...]

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    Card Ph ysical and Environmental Specs and Regulatory Information FCC Statement (For U .S.A.) 16 FCC Statement (F or U.S .A.) F ederal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement W ARNING This device complies with P art 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harm[...]

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    Card Ph ysical and Environmental Specs and Regulatory Information Laser Safety Statements 17 Laser Safety Statements Laser Safety Statements - U.S . FDA/CDRH - Optical (laser) Transceiver CA UTION The optical transceiver provided on the network interface card contains a laser system and is classified as a “Class-I Laser Product” under a U .S .[...]

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    Card Ph ysical and Environmental Specs and Regulatory Information Laser Safety Statements 18[...]