Appendix C — Specifications
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
RoCE
Cable Type
Mode
OM2
Multi‐mode
OM3
Multi‐mode
OM4
Multi‐mode
BlueScale Vision Camera Access One BlueScale Vision camera is included
with the main frame. Additional cameras can be installed in the expansion
frames. To comply with EMC requirements, provide a shielded Category 5
(10/100BaseT connection) data‐grade cable or a similar Category 5 cable
from an active Ethernet network to each camera.
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Support
Spectra Logic supports using the USB ports on the library operator panel,
the LCM, and the RCM for the following:
USB mass storage devices (for example, flash drives)
Keyboards
Pointer devices (for example, a computer mouse)
External Drives (HD, CD, DVD, and Flash) with a USB interface
Spectra Logic does not support using the USB ports for the following:
Cameras
Multimedia devices (for example, MP3 players)
Important
The library only recognizes FAT-formatted, not NTFS-formatted, USB devices.
November 2020
SAS tape drives support the point‐to‐point Serial Attached SCSI
protocol. Connecting these drives to the host network requires a SFF‐
8088 SAS cable rated for 6 Gb/second that does not exceed 13 feet (4 m).
The drive uses 10 GigE optical Ethernet with 10GBASE‐SR SFP+. The
following are the cable types supported for 10G:
Core
Wavelengh
Diameter
50 μm
850 nm /
1300 nm
50 μm
850 nm /
1300 nm
50 μm
850 nm /
1300 nm
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Support
Modal
Cable
Bandwidth
Jacket Color
500 MHz
Orange
2000 MHz
Aqua
4700 MHz
Aqua
User Guide—Spectra TFinity Library
Distance at
10G
82 m
Up to 300 m
Up to 400 m
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