[ Thursday, October 14, 1999 ] Marc Merlin wrote:
> With a safety (no idea how you write this) backplane, a disk shelf can
> communicate with the SCSI card and physically turn off a failed disk for
> instance.
Since I see it scroll by on my boot-up :)
SAF-TE
SCSI Access{ed,ible} Fault-Tolerant Enclosure
www.safte.org
and Marc (who I'm jealous of since the NC DMV doesn't allow the
heart-shaped character in personalized license plates) is right, they
are very nice to have.
For example, on a failing/dying drive, the EXP15 enclosure we have
spins down the drive and turns the led on that bay from green to red.
Very helpful :)
James
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Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
