American Megatrends Series 904 Owner's manual

AMI Storage Backplane Products
Building on its expertise in storage and
motherboard technologies, AMI offers
custom backplane designs. AMI’s state-of-
the-art backplane designs maximize signal
integrity, optimize artwork layout and
support advanced clustering, auto-
termination and isolation capabilities.
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AMI designs and develops key high speed system
components, preserving signal integrity with
increasing data rates, bus lengths and loading. AMI’s
experienced design staff understands the latest
industry innovations and uses the tools and tech-
niques needed to design high reliability systems.
SCSI’s evolution from a low speed narrow inter-
connect to a high speed wide bus is a challenge to
equipment vendors. Designing high speed buses
that travel over several printed circuit boards and
cables requires knowledge beyond traditional
artwork layout. AMI developed signal routing and
layer usage strategies that optimize signal integrity
with minimal manufacturability sacrifice.
With system complexity on the increase, AMI
ensures the highest level of interoperability when
more of the system components are designed and
tested by AMI.
AMI designs are carefully placed and routed for
the best signal flow. Architecting SCSI systems that
operate flawlessly with the latest Ultra160 and
Ultra320 specifications requires minimizing stubs,
accurate spacing of loads and connectors, bus
loading limitations and signal propagation.
One of the most beneficial features to AMI’s
backplanes is Intelligent Platform Management
Interfac (IPMI) support for v0.9 and v1.0. IPMI
gives IT managers access to platform management
information and control features, allowing more
accurate predictions of hardware failures, hardware
problem diagnoses and recovery action initiation.
From the Leader in Storage and
Computing Innovations Worldwide
IPMI v0.9
and v1.0
Support

906 Board (Series 906)
Six Ultra160 Slots, Single Channel
Key Features
• Six Ultra160 (Ultra320 Ready) Slots, Single Channel
• Auto Termination
• Supports IPMI 0.9 and 1.0
• Clustering Support
• Supports SAF-TE Version 1.1
• Hot Swap Drive Support with Individual Power
Control to Each Slot
• Asynchronous Wide SAF-TE Processor
• Activity and Status LEDs for Every Slot
• Global LEDs for Activity, Failure and Rebuild
904 Board (Series 904)
Four Ultra160 Slots, Horizontal
Mounts for 1U Implementation
Key Features
• Four Ultra160 (Ultra320 Ready) Slots, Single Channel
• Horizontal (In-Line) Mounted Drives for use in 1U
Rack Chassis Implementations
• Auto Termination
• Supports IPMI 0.9 and 1.0
• Clustering Support
• Supports SAF-TE Version 1.1
• Hot Swap Drive Support with Individual Power
Control to Each Slot
• Asynchronous Wide SAF-TE Processor
• Activity and Status LEDs for Every Slot
• Global LEDs for Activity, Failure and Rebuild
907 Board (Series 907)
Supports Two 1 or 1.6 Ultra-3 and
Ultra160 SCSI Drives
Key Features
• Supports Two 1” or 1.6” Ultra160 SCSI Drives
• Supports IPMI 0.9 and 1.0
• SCA-2 Connectors to Simplify Insertion and
Removal of Hard Disk Drives
• Hot Swap Drive Support with Individual
Power Control to Each Slot
• Each Drive has a Connector for Activity and
Status LED
• FET Power Control for Each Hard Drive
• Fuse Short Protection
• SAF-TE Management
• Temperature Sensing
• Hard Drive Presence Sensing
• SCSI Active Termination
• Power Connector
• Sideband Signal Connector IPMI I/F and
Other Peripheral Power Control Signals
• Activity and Status LEDs for Every Slot
For More Detailed Information About AMI’s Storage Products, Please Visit Us at www.ami.com.
Advanced Backplane and Custom Design Storage Solutions
Testing
AMI’s expertise in design verification ensures
signal integrity will not cause any issues in
complex systems. AMI uses sophisticated test
equipment to qualify designs. Time
Domain Reflectometer (TDR)
verifies impedance within specifications
and high speed data digital storage
oscilloscopes verifies skew budgets and signal
quality.
Enclosure Management
AMI MegaRAC remote access companions and
motherboards support IPMI. The backplane
combines the SAF-TE of the controller with the
IPMI of a system to achieve the highest level of
enclosure management. AMI can also make
custom modifications for customers.
Key Features
• Power Management for Use in a
1U with the 904
• Power and Fan Control
905 Board (Series 905)