[OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

[Gary Driggs]

On Feb 22, 2011, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Sorry to be dense here but what is an HBA

Host bus adapter is just a fancy name for a multi-port and/or channel hard drive, fibre channel, or Ethernet storage card. A better and more thorough description may be found on wikipedia.

It reminds me of when Sun & other workstation vendors still called all their video cards frame buffers. q.v. the much older vector displays and the much newer graphics accelerators.

-Gary