Drive Enclosure - Silicon Graphics TP9400 RAID Owner's Manual

1: Introduction to the TP9400

Drive Enclosure

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• Supports point-to-point, switch and arbitrated loop topologies
• One to four back-end minihubs per controller enclosure
• Four Fibre Channel drive interfaces with two sets of redundant loops
• Two Ethernet interfaces per controller enclosure for controller management
• Audible alarm (controlled through an enable/disable switch)
• Fault and Status LEDs
The drive enclosures have the following features:
• Three rack units high (1 rack unit = 1.75 inches)
• Up to ten hot-pluggable dual-ported Fibre Channel drives (FC-AL)
• Supports 1.6" and 1" drive form factors
• Fault and Activity indicators
• Redundant hot-pluggable power supplies
• Redundant hot pluggable Environmental Service Modules (ESMs)
• Redundant cooling fans
• GBIC drive enclosure interfaces
1 If connecting the minihub to a host via a switch, only one minihub connector can be attached to each
switch.
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