Grass Valley PFR 500/E Dec 10 2001 - Manual (Page 5)

November 17, 2000 PFC 500/E Instruction Manual 5
Contents
Safety Summaries
General Safety Summary .....................................................................................................7
Safety Terms and Symbols ..................................................................................................8
Service Safety Summary ......................................................................................................8
Certifications and Compliances ............................................................................................9
Preface
About this manual...............................................................................................................11
Using the Profile XP Documentation Set .......................................................................11
Manual Descriptions ......................................................................................................12
How this manual is organized........................................................................................13
Getting more information ....................................................................................................14
On-line manuals ............................................................................................................14
Grass Valley Group Product Support .................................................................................15
Chapter 1 About the PFC500/E
PFC500/E components ......................................................................................................18
Chassis...............................................................................................................................18
Midplane ........................................................................................................................20
Front door ......................................................................................................................21
RAID Controllers (RCs) .................................................................................................21
Disk modules .................................................................................................................22
Disk drives .....................................................................................................................22
Drive carrier ...................................................................................................................22
Power supplies (PSs) .........................................................................................................23
Drive fan pack ....................................................................................................................24
Configurations ....................................................................................................................25
What next? .........................................................................................................................25
Chapter 2 Installing a PFC500/E
Requirements .....................................................................................................................27
Site requirements ..........................................................................................................27
Power........................................................................................................................27
Cooling......................................................................................................................27
Cabling requirements ....................................................................................................28
Addressing requirements...............................................................................................28
FC-AL address ID .....................................................................................................28
Chassis address (CA) ...............................................................................................28
Installing a PFC500/E in a cabinet .....................................................................................29
Determining the rail mounting positions ........................................................................29
Attaching the mounting rails ..........................................................................................31
Sliding PFC500/E onto rails ..........................................................................................32
Setting addresses and connecting cables .....................................................................35
PFC500/E powerup and initialization .................................................................................40
PFC500/E powerdown .......................................................................................................40
Binding disk modules into groups.......................................................................................40