Specifications

5 Host Direct-Connection MDR
5.1 Configuring the MDR Host Software for Direct
Connection
MDR provides several ways to read recorded data back from the disk storage system to a
host system (or vice versa for preload in a playback application). It is possible to use
Ethernet, Shared Memory Network or Fibre Channel.
For the fastest possible readback/preload of the data from/to the disk storage system, the
storage device (RAID or JBOD) may be attached directly to the host, as indicated by the
black line in the figure above.
This mode is available ONLY for Solaris and Windows NT/2000 Hosts (not available
for VxWorks Hosts). Also, Direct Connection requires that the host is equipped with a
Fibre Channel adapter (VMFC-2x00x-xx).
For more details on how to install the VMFC-2x00x-xx driver, please refer to the next
section.
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