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Chapter 1. General description 7
In a full configuration, with four connected p5-570 building blocks, the combined system
supports up to eight slim-line media device bays. To support two slim-line devices in each
p5-570 building block, the optional media enclosure and backplane (FC 7869) is required.
Any combination of the following DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives can be installed:
DVD-RAM drive, FC 5751
DVD-ROM drive, FC 2640
A logical partition running a supported release of the Linux® operating system requires the
media enclosure and backplane feature code, and a DVD-ROM drive or DVD-RAM drive.
1.3.4 USB diskette drive
For today’s administration tasks, an internal diskette drive is not state-of-the-art, but in some
situations the external USB 1.44 MB diskette drive for p5-520 systems (FC 2591) is helpful.
This super-slim-line and lightweight USB V2 attached diskette drive takes its power
requirements from the USB port. A USB cable is provided. The drive can be attached to the
integrated USB ports or to a USB adapter (FC 2738). A maximum of one USB diskette drive
is supported per integrated controller/adapter. The same controller can share a USB mouse
and keyboard.
1.3.5 I/O drawers
The p5-570 has six internal blind swap PCI-X slots: five are long slots and one is a short slot.
The short PCI-X slot may also be used for the Remote I/O expansion card (FC 1800). If more
PCI-X slots are needed, such as to extend the number of LPARs and partitions using
Micro-Partitioning technology, up to 20 7311 Model D10, 7311 Model D11, or 7311 Model D20
I/O drawers can be attached.
7311 Model D10 I/O drawer
The 7311 Model D10 I/O drawer is supported if it is migrated from an existing system, but it
cannot be ordered with the p5-570. The 7311 Model D10 is a 4U half-wide drawer that must
be mounted in the rack enclosure (FC 7311) where two 7311 Model D10 I/O drawers could be
mounted side-by-side. It features five hot-pluggable PCI-X slots and one standard hot-plug
PCI slot with blind swap mechanism. (FC 4599 is the PCI Blind Swap Cassette Kit, Single
Wide Adapter, Universal.) The 7311 Model D10 I/O drawer includes redundant concurrently
maintainable power and cooling devices as default. The 7311 Model D10 I/O drawer does not
slide out from the enclosure on rails, and therefore the IBM service representative must
remove it for service.
The p5-570 system supports up to 20 7311 Model D10 drawers. A fully optioned system
supports up to 124 PCI-X slots and up to 20 PCI slots (in full configuration, one PCI-X slot
must be reserved for a Remote I/O expansion card).
3277 36.4 GB 15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI disk drive assembly
3274 73.4 GB 10K RPM Ultra320 SCSI disk drive assembly
3278 73.4 GB 15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI disk drive assembly
3275 146.8 GB 10K RPM Ultra320 SCSI disk drive assembly
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