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, HP XPxxx disk arrays, High
Availability Model 10 and 20 disk arrays and AutoRAID.
CSY is also moving to new processor technologies. 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 some of these new I/O requirements. Therefore, MPE/iX
6.5 and later releases 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 list of products not carried forward
in MPE/iX 6.5 and 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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