In May 1993, Hewlett-Packard Company introduced a family of
High Availability Fiber Link disk arrays. Those Fiber Link (HP-FL)
disk arrays were discontinued in August of 1997, along with other
standalone Fiber link disk drives. The Fiber Link disk arrays were HP's
first RAID devices built for high availability, high performance,
high capacity and distances up to 500 meters. Since 1993, HP has
embraced new disk array technologies, EMC disk arrays, High Availability
Model 10 and 20 disk arrays and AutoRAID.
CSY is also moving to new processor technologies, like the
N-class computers. These new computers call for new I/O cards, devices
drives and I/O backplanes. MPE/iX is also changing. MPE/iX 6.5 is
the first HP e3000 operating system to support these new I/O requirements.
Therefore, MPE/iX 6.5 will not support Fiber Link disk I/O system
drivers, I/O cards, and Fiber Link disks. The last release of MPE/iX
to support HP-FL drivers and disk is MPE/iX 6.0.
The following is a partial of products not carried forward in MPE/iX 6.5 or later:
Part #
Description of Obsolete Part
C2258HA
1/02 High Availability FL disk array
C2254HA
4/99 High Availability FL disk array
C2252B
4/99 High Availability FL disk array
C2258B
1/02 High Availability FL disk array
C2252HA
4/00 High Availability FL disk array
C2254B
4/99 High Availability FL disk array
C2259B
1/02 High Availability FL disk array
C2259HA
1/02 High Availability FL disk array
C2201A
8/97 FL disk
C2204A
8/97 FL disk
A1748A
PBA FL Chan-span card with HP-FL adapter
A28616A
PBA FL NIO Optic interface card
A27115A
CIO Fiber Optic interface card
Removal of Support for Servers and HP-IB in MPE/iX
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