HP e3000 MPE/iX System Software Maintenance Manual (Release C.75.00) (30216-90344)

Chapter 1

Introduction

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, EMC disk arrays, High Availability Model 10 and 20 disk arrays and AutoRAID.

CSY is also moving to new processor technologies, like the N-class computers. 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 these new I/O requirements. Therefore, MPE/iX 6.5 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 of products not carried forward in MPE/iX 6.5 or 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