Re: Q: PCI-X @ 266MHz on HP rx6600 (Qlogic 4Gb FC HBA)

[Andrew Vasquez]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Andrew Patterson wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 23:23 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
>
> > The 33/66/100/133 values refer to the bus-clock speed at which the
> > card is operating.  As is seen here (although a bit truncated --
> > separate issue, I'll try to see if I can reproduce this on one of my
> > HPQ rigs), the card is inserted into a PCI-X Mode-2 capable 133MHz
> > (bus clock) slot.  When operating under this mode, each data-phase
> > between two devices is divided into 2 sub-phases, effectively doubling
> > the transfer-data-rate to 266Mhz.
> 
> I guess the proper terminology would be 266 MT/s (Mega
> Transfers/second). Looking through the PSI_SIG PCI-X 2.0 marketing
> blurbs, they use MHz a lot when referring to MT/S. So I would still
> consider this to be a minor bug.  The user wants to know the transfer
> rate, not the actual frequency of the bus.  Maybe just print out the
> mode used instead, e.g., "PCI-X 266"?

That sounds reasonable.  I'll spin some patches today after I verify
all the bus-bits with the PUI group.

Thanks,
Andrew Vasquez
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