A5000: no NVRAM?

V.Sander zdv123@zam229.zam.kfa-juelich.de
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:16:39 +0100


>> Hello,
>> 
>> I can't find anything about NVRAM in connection with the A5000 Array
>> (e.g. in the Technical White Papers for A5000). Do I miss something?

>No, you didn't. The A5000 disks are pure fibre channel...there's
>nothing between the disks and your host...


Except of an optional Hub, the Interface Board (with firmware on it, but
no cache) and the backplane. 

Consequently the single-disk performance of an A5000 disk is the same than
a single disk performance of modern Fast-SCSI-disks. 

Volker