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SAF-TE Enclosure Management
What is SAF-TE?
SAF-TE stands for SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures. It is an
enclosure management technology. A SAF-TE-compliant enclosure
monitors the fan temperature, power supply, UPS and also provides
drive status LED's.
The SAF-TE enclosure connects to the RAID
Controller via a SCSI connector. The RAID controller communicates
with the SAF-TE enclosure with standard SCSI commands.
Front Panel
Controller
error alert
GUI RAID Manager
Acer RAID Manager
error alert
error alert
• SAF-TE chipset connects to the drive channel of the
controller together with the other SCSI drives.
How Does SAF-TE work?
The SAF-TE device (often a back plane within a drive-bay enclosure)
must occupy a connector on one of the drive channels' SCSI cables.
The presence of a SAF-TE device will be detected and its presence
will be displayed in both the RS-232 terminal emulation and the Acer
RAID Manager programs.
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SAF-TE Support
RAID
SAF-TE
SCSI
Chipset
Drive Status
Temperature Alert
Indicators
Signal Input
UPS Failure
Signal Input
Cooling Fan
Failure
Signal Input
Power Supply
Failure
Signal Input
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