Magma P13RR manual Introduction, General Specifications, Pre-InstallationInformation

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Chapter 1 Introduction

General Specifications

Magma's 13 Slot PCI Expansion System is a general-purpose bus expansion system for the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) local bus. The expansion bus is fully compliant with the PCI Local Bus Specification. The PCI expansion system consists of an expansion bus cable (a shielded, high-speed cable), an expansion interface card, an expansion motherboard and a rack-mount enclosure with a power supply.

Item			Description
Backplane:	13 PCI Slots (supports full or short-length PCI cards)
Enclosure:	19" Rack-mount Standard
Dimensions:	(4U ) 19" W x 7" H x 17.7" D
Weight:	24 lb or 11.804 kg
Construction:	All Steel Chassis
Cooling:	Two 70-105 CFM fans
Power Supply:	400W or 400W redundant
Standard Cable:	1-meter
MTBF:	37,000 hours
PCI Bus:	32 bits/33 MHz
PCI Local Bus	Revision 2.2
Specification:
PCI Bridge	Revision 1.2
Architecture Spec:
Interconnect	132 MB/sec (Theoretical Max. of PCI 33/32)
Bandwidth:
Operating	ƒ	0° to 50° C Operating Temperature
Environment:	ƒ	-20° to 60° C Storage Temperature
	ƒ	5% to 85% Relative Humidity, Non-condensing
Operating Systems:	Windows Vista/XP/2000/Server 2003
	Mac OS X Version 10.4.x +
	Linux Kernel 2.6.x +
Warranty:	1 Year Return to Factory
Available Options:	ƒ	1.5-meter cable (PN: SUBCBL1.5HF)
	ƒ	Disk Drive Cage for up to four 3.5” internal disk
		drives (PN: RDRIVECAGE)
	ƒ	PCI card hold down kit (PN: RCHD7)
	ƒ	Rack-mount slide kit (PN: RSLIDES-XX)

Pre-InstallationInformation

Before using the Magma expansion chassis you should perform the following steps:

•Inventory the shipping carton contents for all of the required parts

•Gather all of the necessary tools required for installation

•Read this manual

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