59 -- SCSI Interface

The 325th Contracting Squadron at Tyndall AFB FL hereby gives notice of its intention to award a sole source purchase order to L-3 Communications Telemetry West for the acquisition of Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Module SUW567 under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP). This announcement constitutes the only notice. The reference number is F1WC0642220300. The NAICS code for this purchase is 334220 and the size standard is 750 employees. The contractor shall provide the following: two (2) ea. Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Module SUW567.- Stores data at continuous rates of up to 36 MB/sec - Stores up to 36 GB of data per disk or 288 GB per array rank - Controls up to seven drives per controller fro 252 GB of storage or 7 RAIDS of almost 2 terabytes - Gathers data for storage and playback; plays back data at different rates for post analysis - Uses a single Ultra SCSI controller for multiple media types, including disk arrays (RAIDs), individual drives, magneto optical drives, 4mm (DAT) tape, 8mm tape, ½” DLT tape, and ½” DAT tape. - Stores data in the right format for users application’s requirements (select from data and tag or data only, in 16 or 32 bit data formats with or without time tagging) - Backs up/restores data between disk and tape without using MUXbus or network resources. - Takes advantage of industry-standard NFS support to mount front-end storage to workstations on the network. - Uses automatic tag offset to play back data for simultaneous acquisition of real-time data and playback or archived data. - Controls or transfers files with an OSF/Motif-based drag-and-drop graphical user interface (GUI) or well-defined application programming interface (API). - -SCSI INTERFACE- - Peak Data Rate 40 MB/Sec - Electrical Single-ended differential-option - -VME INTERFACE- - Compatibility C.1+ VME64 specification - Address Space A32/A24/A16 - Data width 64 / 32 / 16 bits (D64/D32/D16) - Interrupts Programmable 7-level and message mailbox - Data transfer DMA - -HUMANE-MACHINE INTERFACE- - Graphical OSF/Motif point-and-click graphical user interface to select parameters and for module setup. - File ACSII text file. - -DISK DATA STORAGE FORMAT- - Sector size 512 bytes - Tag/Data (4 bytes) 128 parameters/sector - Data only (2 bytes) 256 parameters/sector - Sector Format Fixed sector format - Sector Buffer length 96kb - Sector Interleave 1:1 - Error Detection 16-bit CRC CCITT; Polynomial X16=X12+X5+1 The closing date for this notice is Thursday 16 Sept at 3:00 p. m. Central Standard Time. For more information contact the administrator, MSgt Terrence L. White at (850) 283-8617. You may email at: [email protected].