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IBM Eserver BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card and IBM Eserver BladeCenter JS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card Installation and User’s Guide
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Contents Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fibre Channel overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . 29 Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . 30 Software service and support . . . . ...
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Safety Before installing this product, read the Safety Information. Antes de instalar este produto, leia as Informações de Segurança. Pred instalací tohoto produktu si prectete prírucku bezpecnostních instrukcí. Læs sikkerhedsforskrifterne, før du installerer dette produkt. Lees voordat u dit produc...
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Statement 1: DANGER Electrical current from power, telephone, and communication cables is hazardous. To avoid a shock hazard: v Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation, maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm. v Connect all power cords to a ...
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Statement 3: CAUTION: When laser products (such as CD-ROMs, DVD drives, fiber optic devices, or transmitters) are installed, note the following: v Do not remove the covers. Removing the covers of the laser product could result in exposure to hazardous laser radiation. There are no serviceable parts ...
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Statement 21: CAUTION: Hazardous energy is present when the blade is connected to the power source. Always replace the blade cover before installing the blade. WARNING: Handling the cord on this product or cords associated with accessories sold with this product, will expose you to lead, a chemical ...
Page 14 - Fibre; Eserver; Learn
The expansion card comes with a three-year limited warranty. For information about your warranty, see Appendix B, “IBM Statement of Limited Warranty Z125-4753-08 04/2004,” on page 31. You can obtain up-to-date information about the expansion card and other IBM Eserver products at http://www.ibm.com/...
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– How to set up and start your blade server – How to install options in your blade server – How to configure your blade server – How to install an operating system on your blade server – How to perform basic troubleshooting of your blade server – How to get help v IBM Eserver BladeCenter Remote SAN ...
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Note: This feature is not available on the IBM ERserver BladeCenter JS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card. v Support for Fibre Channel protocol small computer system interface (FCP-SCSI) and Fibre Channel Internet protocol (FCP-IP) v Support for point-to-point fabric connection (F-port fabric login) v S...
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Major components of the expansion card The following illustration shows the components on the top of the expansion card. Note: The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware. ISP2312 chip (U5) ISP2312 chip (U5): The ISP2312 chip provides a PCI-X local bus interface and t...
Page 29 - Configuration
Chapter 4. Using IBM Fast!UTIL This chapter provides detailed configuration information for advanced users who want to customize the configuration of the IBM Eserver BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card when it is installed in a BladeCenter HS20 or HS40 blade server. You can configure the I/O ex...
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Table 7. Expansion card RIO options and operation modes Option Operation mode 0 No multiple responses 5 Multiple responses with minimal interrupts 6 Interrupt when interruption delay timer expires or there is no action Interrupt delay timer: This setting contains the value (in 100-microsecond increm...
Page 37 - Update
Update Flash utility Through the Utilities section of the FAStT MSJ utility, you can update I/O expansion card firmware and perform adapter-level configurations on a host-connected adapter. When you click Update Flash in the Utilities section of the FAStT MSJ utility, and the adapter accepts the upd...
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JAPAN Governing Law: The following sentence is added to this section: Any doubts concerning this Statement of Limited Warranty will be initially resolved between us in good faith and in accordance with the principle of mutual trust. MALAYSIA Limitation of Liability: The word “ SPECIAL ” in item 3 of...
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Index A advanced adapter settings 20 allocation, input/output control block (IOCB) 20 B basic input/output system (BIOS) code update 15 blade server 11, 17, 28 BladeCenter unit 1 C Class A electronic emission notice 58 components 7, 8 configuration problems 28 configuration settings adapter serial n...