Product Overview and Requirements

PCI-X 133 MHz capable card. It can operate at 32-bit or 64-bit 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 “ dual-rope” PCI-X 133 slot. To identify which slots are the dual rope slots in a particular system, please refer to the hardware users’ guide for each system. The AB290A card is not supported in PCI 33 bus mode. It operates in 3.3V slots only.

Requires either HP-UX 11i v 2.0 (64 bit) operating environment (OE) of September 2004 (or later) or the two software bundles, IEther-00 (for LAN) and scsiU320-00 (for SCSI), from the 11i v 1.0 of December 2004 (or later) software distribution.

The Gigabit Ethernet ports support use of Jumbo Frames.

Supports HP Serviceguard for the whole card and Auto-Port Aggregation (APA) for high availability of the 1000Base-T ports.

The Gigabit Ethernet ports support virtual LANs (VLANs). This feature is described in Using HP-UX VLANs on http://docs.hp.com.

Supports PCI-X online addition/replacement (OLA/R) on specified systems. For instructions on how to perform online addition and replacement (OLAR) for PA-RISC-based systems running HP-UX 11i v 1.0, see Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals. For instructions on performing OL* for Itanium-based systems and PA-RISC systems running HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 or later, refer to the Interface Card OL* Support Guide.

Supports configuration through SAM or command line.

Online/Offline Diagnostics.

Ignite UX support.

Maximum data rate of 320 Mbytes/s over each SCSI channel.

Supports boot over the 1000Base-T and SCSI interfaces.

SCSI T10 Parallel Interface SPI-4 operates as two 16-bit wide, synchronous or asynchronous, low-voltage differential (LVD) or single ended (SE) interfaces.

Supports vPars.

The AB290A does not support any configuration where it is in the middle of the SCSI bus (using “Y” cables or simultaneous internal and external connections.

SCSI termination is enabled by default. HP only supports configurations where the termination is enabled.
The termination Disabled LED will glow when termination is disabled (basically during unsupported configurations)-- for example, when the terminators on that bus have been disabled. The channel A termination disable LED will only glow if the jumper is installed across both posts. The channel B termination disable LED will glow if the jumper is installed or if cables are connected to both the internal and external channel B connectors (this is not a supported configuration).