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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 1 Introduction
General Specifications
Magma's 7 Slot PCI Expansion System is a general-purpose bus
expansion system for the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
local bus. The expansion bus is fully compliant with the PCI Local Bus
Specification. The PCI expansion system consists of an expansion bus
cable (a shielded, high-speed cable), an expansion interface card, an
expansion motherboard and a rack-mount enclosure with a power
supply.
Item
Description
Backplane:
7 PCI Slots (supports full or short-length PCI cards)
Enclosure: 19"
Rack-mount
Standard
Dimensions:
(4U ) 19" W x 7" H x 17.7" D
Weight:
24 lb or 11.804 kg
Construction:
All Steel Chassis
Cooling:
One 82.5 CFM fan and one fan in power supply
Power Supply:
400W or 400W redundant
Standard Cable:
1-meter
MTBF: 53,000
hours
PCI Bus:
32-bit/33Mhz or 64-bit/33MHz
PCI Local Bus
Specification:
Revision 2.2
PCI Bridge
Architecture Spec:
Revision 1.2
Interconnect
Bandwidth:
132 MB/sec (Theoretical Max. of PCI 32/33)
264 MB/sec (Theoretical Max. of PCI 64/33)
Operating
Environment:
0
°
to 50
°
C Operating Temperature
-20
°
to 60
°
C Storage Temperature
5% to 85% Relative Humidity, Non-condensing
Operating Systems:
Windows Vista/XP/2000/Server 2003
Mac OS X Version 10.4.x +
Linux Kernel 2.6.x +
Warranty:
1 Year Return to Factory
Available Options:
1.5-meter cable (PN: SUBCBL1.5HF)
Disk Drive Cage for up to four 3.5” internal disk
drives (PN: RDRIVECAGE)
PCI card hold down kit (PN: RCHD7)
Rack-mount slide kit (PN: RSLIDES-
XX
)
Pre-Installation Information
Before using the Magma expansion chassis you should perform the
following steps:
•
Inventory the shipping carton contents for all of the required parts
•
Gather all of the necessary tools required for installation
•
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