MAGAZINE FOR A PLURALITY OF REMOVABLE HARD DISK DRIVES

    公开(公告)号:SG104315A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-21

    申请号:SG200202357

    申请日:2002-04-22

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A magazine for a plurality of removable disk drives. The magazine provides physical and electrical support for the disk drives, and includes a magazine backplane for electrically connecting to the disk drives, and a module connector for electrically connecting to a host computer, preferably at a backplane of the library. Preferably, the magazine also supports a connecting circuit for implementing a fibre channel arbitration loop and intelligent hub for reconfiguring the fibre channel arbitration loop if one or more of the disk drives fails.

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