PCIe3 4 x8 SAS Port Adapter (FC EL60, FC EL65, FC EJ10, and FC EJ11; CCIN 57B4)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EL60, FC EL65, FC EJ10, and FC EJ11 adapter.
Overview
The PCIe3 4 x8 SAS Port Adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe), generation 3, RAID SAS adapter. The adapters are short-form factor. The FC EL65 and FC EJ10 are full-height adapters and the FC EL60 and FC EJ11 are low-profile adapters. The adapter is used in high-performance and high-density, serial attached SCSI (SAS) applications. It supports the attachment of SAS DVD or SAS tape by using four mini SAS high-density (HD) x4 connectors that allow the physical links to be used in various narrow and wide-port configurations. SAS tape attachment is only supported in a single adapter configuration and cannot be mixed with SAS disk on the same adapter. The adapter does not have write cache. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the PCIe3 4 x8 SAS port adapter.
A maximum of four DVD or tape drives can be attached per adapter by using four AE1 cables (FC ECBY). A maximum of eight DVD or tape drives can be attached by using four YE1 cables (ECBZ).
Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the adapters. The connector plug (A) is installed in an empty port and prevents damage to that port whenever a cable for the adjacent port connectors is plugged-in or removed.
Specifications
- Item
- Description
- Adapter FRU number
- 000MH959
- Connector plug part number
- 00FW784 (The connector plug is installed in an empty port and prevents damage to that port whenever a cable for the adjacent port connectors is plugged-in or removed.)
- I/O bus architecture
- PCIe 3.0 but compatible to PCIe 2.0 or PCIe 1.0 slots.
- Slot requirement
- For details about slot priorities, maximums, and placement rules, see PCIe adapter placement rules and slot priorities and select the system you are working on.
- Voltage
- 3.3 V.
- Form factor
- Short form factor.
- Cables
- Specific AE1 or YE1 SAS cable features with narrow HD connectors are used to attach the adapter to SAS devices.
- Attributes
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- Four external mini SAS HD 4x connectors provide attachment of SAS devices
- SAS Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) and Serial Management Protocol (SMP)
- Concurrent firmware update
- Removable media device (DVD and SAS tape) are supported in a single controller configuration only and cannot be combined with disk devices attached to the same adapter. Removable media is not supported in multi-initiator and high availability (dual storage IOA) configurations
- Support single controller configurations only
Operating system or partition requirements
- The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from the Fix Central website.
- Power Systems Prerequisites website.
- IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) website.
- The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power® RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website.
- For information about important notices for Linux on IBM Power Systems, see the Linux on IBM website.
- AIX: devices.pci.14104A0 device driver package