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Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives

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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 3000 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:

Part #Description of Obsolete Part
C2258HA1/02 High Availability FL disk array
C2254HA4/99 High Availability FL disk array
C2252B4/99 High Availability FL disk array
C2258B1/02 High Availability FL disk array
C2252HA4/00 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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