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Agilent HDMP-0450 Quad Port Bypass Circuit for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops
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Description The HDMP-0450 is a Quad Port Bypass Circuit (PBC) which provides a low-cost, low-power physical-layer solution for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) disk array configurations. By using a PBC such as the HDMP-0450, hard disks may be pulled out or swapped while other disks in the array are available to the system. A PBC consists of multiple 2:1 multiplexers daisy chained together. Each port has two modes of operation: “disk in loop” and “disk bypassed.” When the “disk in loop” mode is selected, the loop goes into and out of the disk drive at that port.