Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1 (Software Release C.70.01) (30216-90328)

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Announcements
Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives
Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk
Drives
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