General Information; Introduction; Product Description - HP 27115A Installation Manual

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General Information
Introduction
Product Description
This manual contains installation and troubleshooting information for the
HP 27115A Fiber-Optic Link
(HP-FL)
device adapter.
The HP 27115A
HP-FL
device adapter provides the computer system with a high
speed, serial connection to peripheral devices over a fiber-optic data link.
Device specific data are converted to a format compatible with the CIO bus
(cm), and then passed to the host computer. The channel adapter controls the
flow of traffic between the cm and the memory/processor bus. See figure 1-1.
Channel
Adapter
Figure 1-1. HP-FL Device Adapter in an HP 3000 Computer System
A duplex fiber-optic cable provided with the
HP-FL
connects it to supported
peripherals. The cable consists of two graded index optical fibers with cladding
and a polyurethane outer jacket, with four 90s-type
SMA
optical connectors.
Peripherals that may be connected to the HP 27115A
HP-FL
include:
• HP 7936FL, 307-Mbyte disk drive with
HP-FL
controller
• HP 7937FL, 571-Mbyte disk drive with
HP-FL
controller
• HP C2201A, 670-Mbyte disk drive with
HP-FL
controller
• HP C2204A, 134O-Mbyte disk drive with
HP-FL
controller
Generallnformation 1-1