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).

Externally attached devices are designed to run at a maximum data rate of 6 Gbps for SAS tape devices.
Important: See the SAS RAID controllers for AIX®, SAS RAID controllers for IBM® i, or SAS RAID controllers for Linux® topics for more information and important considerations for multi-initiator and high availability or dual storage IOA configurations

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.

Figure 1. PCIe3 4 x8 SAS port adapter (FC EL60 and FC EJ11)
PCIe3 4 x8 SAS Port Adapter
Figure 2. PCIe3 4 x8 SAS port adapter (FC EL65 and FC EJ10)
PCIe3 4 x8 SAS Port Adapter

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.
SAS device attachment requires specific cables that are provided with the subsystem or device features that are being attached. See Serial attached SCSI cable planning.
Attributes
  • 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

If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new feature and you must determine any prerequisites that must be met for this feature and the attached devices. For information about operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following topics:
This adapter requires the following drivers:
  • AIX: devices.pci.14104A0 device driver package