PCI SSA 4-Port RAID Adapter/A
Type 4-J - #6218 - Beaulieu

                 ___________________________________________
                |                                         | |
         B2 --> |  B2 Internal connector     #6218        | |
Green light --> |                                         | |
         B1 --> |  B1 Internal connector                  | |
                |                                         | |
         A2 --> |    96H9875<-32H3836 (without DRAM)      | |
Green light --> |    73G3233 DRAM card                    | |
         A1 --> |   ___                        ___________|_|
                |__|   |____________||__|||||||
                |








Specs:



  • Supported at AIX V4.15, 4.2.1, 4.3.0 - Not AIX 3.2

  • Single adapter in a loop ( No High-Availability ).

  • From 3 to 16 drives per RAID Array.

  • Busmaster: Yes

  • Adapter Type: Long

  • Data transfer rate: 20MB/s per loop

  • Loops: 2

  • Disks per loop: 48

  • Adapter Compatibility: None

  • RAID support: RAID 5 and Non-RAID

  • Hot Spare: Yes

  • Fast Write Cache: No

  • RAID/Spares Span Loops: Yes.

  • Boot Support: No.

  • Dump tool: No

    

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Links to see/download current level of fileset:

    

  • Adapters:
    

    devices.pci.14104500.*

    

  • Disks:

    devices.ssa.disk.rte.*
    

    devices.ssa.IBM_raid.rte.*

    

  • Microcode:
    

    Adapter, disks, spare tool and AIX

    

  • Doc:

    Install, technical & MIM

    
Other Links:
    


    Dave Adams Web Site

    Any other search on Boulder

    

    

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    Status: Still supported but withdraw - #6215 4-n now replaces #6218 4-j

      Status of light
              Off         Both link inactive / DISK failing / link
              ON          Both link active
              Slow Flash  Only 1 SSA link active


 The adapter card has 4 SSA connectiors that are arranged in 2 pairs.
 Connectors A1 and A2 are one pair; connectors B1 and B2 are the other pair.

 The SSA links must be configured as loops. Each loop is connected to a pair of
 connectors at the SSA card. These connectors MUST be a valid pair ( that is,
 configured, and the diagnostics fail. Operations to all the disk drive modules
 on a particular loop can continue if that loop breaks at any one point.

 This adapter also contains ARRAY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE that provides RAID-5
 functions to control the arrays of the RAID subsystem. An array can have from
 3 to 16 member disk drives. Each array is handled as ONE LARGE DISK by the
 operating system. The array management software translate requests to this
 large disk into requests to the member disk drive. Although this adapter is a
 RAID adapter, it can be configured so that all, some, or none of the disk
 drives that are attached to it are member disks of arrays.


          SSA Cables:

         P/N       FC            Length
       07H9163    5002       0.18m  0.6ft
       31H7960    5006        0.6m   1.9ft
       07H8985    5010/2895   1.0m   3.3ft
       32H1465    5025/2896   2.5m   8.2ft
       88G6404    5050/2897     5m    16.4ft
       32H1466    5100/2898    10m   32.8ft
       88G6406    5250/2899     25    82.0ft
       93H9821    Internal -  plugs on B1/B2
       07H9153    5500 Extender Pair
       32H7048    Extender 1 cable
       32H7049    Wrap for externder

   INTERNAL CABLING: Ports B1 and B2 have 2 sets of connectors. There is an
          internal B1/B2 pair and an external B1/B2 pair. Only one pair of
          these loops connector can be used at a time.


Updated: Nov 30 2000 by Bruno Croft