The Jamaica was an external SCSI disk enclosure from Hewlett-Packard. A disk enclosure is essentially a specialized Chassis designed to hold and power Disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more It was available in deskside or rackmount chassis. The Jamaica had two drive bays, each with its own SCSI bus. A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer In Computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data between computer components inside a Computer or between computers Each bay was capable of holding up to four hot-swappable disk modules or tape drives, two hot-swappable power supplies, and two hot-swappable fan modules. Hot swapping and hot plugging are terms used to separately describe the functions of replacing system components hot swapping describes changing components like fans and A tape drive, which is also known as a streamer, is a data storage device that reads and writes data stored on a magnetic tape. Power supply is a reference to a source of Electrical power. A device or system that supplies Electrical or other types of Energy to an output load
Available modules included:
- 1. 6 inch DDS Tape (uses two slots)
- 1. 6 inch disk module (uses two slots)
- 1 inch disk module (uses one slot)
Disk modules were single-ended SCSI or fast/wide differential SCSI.
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