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A7538A is the HP PCI-X 1-port 2-GbE Fiber Adapter for Linux, a single-port 2Gb/s Fibre Channel card with an LC connector.
On the HP Integrity rx1620, A7538A is supported under Linux RHEL 3 and SLES 9, installs to a maximum of 2 cards and 2 ports, supports boot and takes a half-height slot. The HP Integrity rx2620 takes up to 4 A7538A cards under Linux, without boot support. The HP Integrity rx4640 takes up to 6, with boot support.
HP-branded QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs including A7538A and A6826A received a new QLogic Linux driver for RHEL 3 U9 on 4 September 2007: driver 7.07.05.08, SANsurfer Manager 5.0.0b22 and Fibreutils 2.3-7.
Under Linux on the HP Integrity rx7620, A7538A supports hot plug without factory integration, up to 15 cards and 15 ports; the HP Integrity rx8620 takes up to 8 cards and 8 ports. On Linux, lspci identifies the card as a QLogic QLA2312 Fibre Channel adapter, revision 03.
The card spares are A7538-60001 and A7538-69001, 64-bit PCI-X to Fibre Channel host adapters with a high-performance DMA bus master.
| Designation | A7538A |
| Manufacturer | HPE |
| Type | Fibre Channel adapter |
| Bus | PCI-X |
| Ports | 1 |
| Speed | 2 Gb/s |
| Connector | LC |
| Operating system | Linux (RHEL 3, SLES 9) |
| Maximum on rx1620 | 2 cards / 2 ports |
| Maximum on rx2620 | 4 cards |
| Maximum on rx4640 | 6 cards |
| Chip maker | QLogic |
| Linux on rx7620 | up to 15 cards / 15 ports, hot plug |
| Linux on rx8620 | up to 8 cards / 8 ports |