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• Installing and configuring the FC1143 and FC1243 4Gb PCI-X 2.0 HBAs
• Contacting technical support for additional assistance
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• Linux® oerating systems
• Microsoft® Window® operating systems
• host bus adap
Related d ocumentation
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1HBAfeatures
This chapter d escribes the features of the FC1143 single-port HBA (product number AB429A) and
FC1243 dual-port HBA (product number AE369A).
•Performance specifications,page11
•Environmental specifications,page12
•Physical specifications, page 1 2
Performance specifications
The FC1143 and FC1243 HBAs are 4Gb PCI-X 2.0 high-performance direct memory access (DMA)
bus master H BAs designed for high-end systems.
These HBAs have the following features:
• Combines a p
protocol manager (FPM) with 4Gb Fibre Channel transceivers, and a peripheral component
interconnect (PCI) or peripheral component interconnect-extended (PCI-X) local bus interface in
a