Electronics

Electronics

The electronics consist of the control path and robotic cards in the base unit.

Communications include:

Command line interface (CLI) over an RS232 port

Public Ethernet port (The private port is for future use)

Point to point library/tape drive RS423 interface

Control path card for LVD SCSI or SCSI over Fibre Channel

Sensors include:

Card temperature

Fan operational

Power safe

Tape drive present

Tape drive fault LED

RLC Card

The RLC card is the processor card. It contains all the necessary hardware to maintain the robotics, interfaces, servo and vision control, and the door/CAP sensor status.

The card stores the library capacity information and the volume serial numbers (also called VOLID) of the cartridges in the library storage cells.

Interface Cards

The RLW card is the LVD SCSI interface card. The MPU2 card is the Fibre Channel interface card.

22 SL500 User’s Guide • July 2008

Revision: KA • 96116

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Sun Microsystems SL500 manual Electronics, RLC Card, Interface Cards