2 December 1999
PFC 500/E Instruction Manual
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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 PFC 500/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 ....................................................................................................................24
What next? .........................................................................................................................24
Chapter 2
Installing a PFC 500/E
Requirements .....................................................................................................................25
Site requirements ..........................................................................................................25
Power........................................................................................................................25
Cooling......................................................................................................................25
Cabling requirements ....................................................................................................26
Addressing requirements...............................................................................................26
FC-AL address ID .....................................................................................................26
Chassis address (CA) ...............................................................................................26
Installing a PFC500/E in a cabinet .....................................................................................27
Determining the rail mounting positions ........................................................................27
Attaching the mounting rails ..........................................................................................29
Sliding PFC500/E onto rails ..........................................................................................30
Setting addresses and connecting cables .....................................................................33
PFC500/E powerup and initialization .................................................................................38
PFC500/E powerdown .......................................................................................................38
Binding disk modules into groups.......................................................................................38
Chapter 3
Servicing and upgrading a PFC500/E
Hot swapping components .................................................................................................39
Monitoring PFC500/E status ..............................................................................................40
Handling CRUs...................................................................................................................42
Power issues and CRUs................................................................................................42
