Tape and HDD Replacement

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Tape & HDD replacement

Using the PV Flash disk and tape products in telco Switching and transport applications

TELCO – Telecom Hardware with partner have developed a Solid Disk drive, magneto Optic (MO) and 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 1 3.5 inch from factor.

It can be configured with either a SCSI or Pertec Interface for a 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 SCSICFdisks. Also the HP2940A for EWSD Switching V.9
Fujitsu Fetex 150- Fujitsu SCSI drive emulation
NEC NEAX 61E and Sigma – FlashTape emulating a SCSI DAT and other drives.
ERICSSON AXE10 SCSI drives
TELEBRAS TROPICO SCSI tape drives
NORTEL DMS10 SCSI disk & tape emulation

STROMBERG-CARLESON DCO – FlashTape emulating a Sony SDT-
11000 SCSI DAT drive.
NTT – SCSI disk & tape emulation.

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 then copied to a Windows PC for backup purposes. SCSI 2 transfer rates are (up to) 10 Mbytes/sec, and disk capacities only limited by current CF cards (up to 32 GB as of 2008)

Tape & HDD replacement

Telco host applications include, Avaya, Ericsson AX10 , Fujitsu
Fetex, Coral and 9600 series, ITT, NEC Neax, Nortel DMS, North Electric, NTT, ROLM, Sagem, Samsung telecommunications, Siemens EWSD, Stromburg Carlson DCO, Tropico, Western Electric

FlashTape and can be configured to replace those hard-to-find SCSI tape drives for legacy systems. Such drives include 9-track, 3480/3490, QIC, 8mm, DAT drives compatible with all the Telcoms platforms, or DLT drives. In these older systems the continual tape repositioning within the drive (shoe-shining), shortens the life of the mechanics of the drive, and also leads to constant clogging of the tape head gaps from tape debris. The FlashTape overcomes this issue as it has no moving parts.

Current Fixed disk Emulations:

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

Current Removable Floppy and MO emulations:

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

Nortel HDD Replacement

Supply restored factory condition OPC Storage with HDD reformatted ready for software. Or we can load whatever software release that is needed by yourselves We can extract software from your original cards Repair original OPC Storage, but in most cases we offer replacement we find it a quicker turn round time Software upgrades. We can upgrade any OPC Storage to any software release that you need. Assist in loaning OPC cards using Advanced replacements procedure

Nortel HDD’s are difficult to find and replace!