The InfoStation is an intelligent and rugged steel rack mount or tower chassis designed to reliably house up to nine, 3.5" half-height, single-connect SCSI drives. This backplane-design RAID or JBOD enclosure comes equipped with removable drive carriers, an eight-character scrolling user display and control panel, and supports SCSI Ultra2 (LVD) operation.The InfoStation is designed to support up to nine half-height SCSI Wide Ultra or Ultra2 (LVD) SCA (single-connect) drives. Each chassis contains two redundant, load-sharing, load-balancing, hot swappable 400W power supplies, and four high-pressure, variable-speed blowers which are contained in two hot swappable modules (two in each). The InfoStation's SCSI backplane comes standard with one Ultra2 (LVD) channel interface, and can easily be upgraded to support a total of up to four LVD channels. The InfoStation chassis can be uniquely daisy-chained for multi-chassis LVD operation, supporting up to 15 drives per channel. An intelligent user interface module with an eight-character scrolling display provides the InfoStation user with complete access to chassis environmental status and control of drive configurations. Temperature sensors at each drive bay and an audible alarm alert the user to system hardware failures and/or warning conditions. LED indicators at each drive bay provide additional user feedback for drive activity, faults, and SCSI ID selection. The InfoStation also provides an output for external PC monitoring and display of its control, power supply, blowers and repeater modules.
