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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 |
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