SCSI Emulation Engineering

SCSI tape & SCSI HDD replacement

Using PV Flash disk and tape products in telco switching and transport applications.

Telecom hardware specialists, together with partners, have developed a solid-state disk drive, a magneto-optical (MO) drive and a tape drive with emulation capability, aimed at ageing drives in legacy telco systems.

This is a SCSI tape or SCSI disk drive with no moving parts, in a 3.5-inch form factor.

Connects to

It can be configured with either a SCSI or a Pertec interface for connection to:

Siemens EWSD (MTD)HP88781AA SCSI or HP Pertec drives, depending on the age of the EWSD rack. Duplex disks MD0 & MD1: duplex disk drives can be replaced with SCSI CF disks. Also the HP2940A for EWSD Switching V.9.

Fujitsu Fetex 150Fujitsu SCSI drive emulation.

NEC NEAX 61E and SigmaFlashTape emulating a SCSI DAT and other drives.

Ericsson AXE10SCSI drives.

Telebras TropicoSCSI tape drives.

Nortel DMS10SCSI disk & tape emulation.

Stromberg-Carlson DCOFlashTape emulating a Sony SDT-11000 SCSI DAT drive.

NTTSCSI disk & tape emulation.

Compact Flash storage, easy backup

Data is stored on an industry-standard Compact Flash (CF) card, which can be easily removed and treated as a replacement for the tape cartridge.

The CF data can then be copied to a Windows PC for backup purposes.

SCSI-2 transfer rates are up to 10 Mbytes/sec, and disk capacities are limited only by the Compact Flash card used.

The unit is available in a number of form factors, including desktop enclosures.

Telco host applications

AvayaEricsson AXE10Fujitsu FetexCoral and 9600 seriesITTNEC NeaxNortel DMSNorth ElectricNTTROLMSagemSamsung telecommunicationsSiemens EWSDStromberg-Carlson DCOTropicoWestern Electric

FlashTape

FlashTape can be configured to replace hard-to-find SCSI tape drives for legacy systems. Such drives include 9-track, 3480/3490, QIC, 8 mm and DAT drives compatible with all the telco platforms, or DLT drives.

In these older systems, the continual tape repositioning within the drive (shoe-shining) shortens the life of the drive mechanics and also leads to constant clogging of the tape-head gaps from tape debris. FlashTape overcomes this issue as it has no moving parts.

Current fixed disk emulations

Maker	Models
Conner	CP30170E
Fujitsu	M2512A, M2266SA, M2516S, M1606S-256
Hitachi	DK515C, DK516C
Maxtor	XT-8760, 7345S, LXT-535SY
Quantum	Atlas, Fireball, Maverick
Seagate	ST15230N, ST3390N, ST5660N, ST32272WC, ST4350N, ST3283N, ST31051, ST52160N, ST34520N, ST32272N, ST31200N, ST32151N, ST39173, ST34371
DEC	RZ23, RZ28
HP	2490A, C2247-300, C2490A-001

Current removable floppy and MO emulations

Maker	Models
Fujitsu	MCE3064SS, MCR3230SS
Iomega	ZIP, JAZ
Maxoptix	T6-5200
Ricoh	RO-5030E
Sony	SMO C301, SMO-F551, SMO-F541
Konica	OMD-19060
DEC	RWZ01
Teac	FC-1

Need to upgrade an old SCSI unit?

To request more information, please email us.

ssd [at] scsi.solutions