H166306:  PCI FIBRE CHANNEL ADAPTER: STATEMENT OF SUPPORT

 TEXT:

 This is a statement of support of the PCI Fibre Channel Adapter

 PROBLEM ISOLATION AIDS:

 - The system is any of the following IBM servers:

      a Netfinity 7000-M10 server, Type 8680, any Model.
      a Netfinity 5500-M20 server, Type 8662, any Model.
      a Netfinity 5500-M10 server, Type 8661, any Model.
      a Netfinity 5500 server, Type 8660, any Model.

 - The system is configured with the following option(s):

      Fibre Channel PCI Adapter p/n01K7297
 DETAILS:

 The Netfinity Fibre Channel PCI Adapter will only be supported
 by IBM as an interface to the Netfinity Fibre Channel
 Controller.

 Note: Only the default BIOS settings will be supported.

 This means that, since the default condition for the BIOS on
 the adapter is disabled, then it will NOT be supported as the
 boot device.

 The chart below shows the default (supported) settings.

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 | SETTING                 | DEFAULT     |
 |-------------------------+-------------|
 | Host adapter BIOS       | Disabled    |
 | Enable LUNs             | Yes         |
 | Execution Throttle      | 255         |
 | Drivers load RISC code  | Enabled     |
 | Frame Size              | 1024        |
 | IOCB allocation         | 256 buffers |
 | Loop reset delay        | 5 seconds   |
 | Extended error logging  | Disabled    |
 | Port down retry count   | 0           |
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DATE: April 14, 1999