SSA RAID Adapter Installation and User's Guide.

Installing the Adapter Card

2.1 Installing the Adapter Card

Attention: Remove all power from your PC server and any attached devices before removing the cover.

To install the adapter card, refer to the documentation that came with your PC server. The User's Handbook for your server describes how to install an adapter. Perform the steps described in that book, ensuring that you perform the actions relating to the static-protective package correctly. When choosing a slot for the SSA RAID Adapter, take note of the following restrictions and recommendations:

￿The SSA RAID Adapter card is a long PCI adapter card. On some models of PC Server, there is only one slot in which a long PCI adapter card can be installed without interference with the heat sink on the processor. In these models, if might be necessary to move previously installed adapter cards before installing the SSA RAID Adapter card.

￿If you are installing one or two SSA RAID Adapter cards in a PC Server 720, to obtain the best performance, use the primary PCI bus (slots 6 and 7). If, because one or both of these slots is already occupied, you cannot use the primary bus for all the SSA RAID Adapter cards that you are installing, use the secondary PCI bus (slots 1 through 5) for all the SSA RAID Adapter cards.

￿If you want to boot from an SSA disk drive and the system has a SCSI PCI adapter, you must install the SSA adapter in a PCI slot with a higher priority than the slot used by the SCSI adapter. In some servers, slots with lower numbers have higher priority, in other servers, higher numbers mean higher priority; the User's Handbook for your server describes which rule applies.

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IBM 32H3816 manual Installing the Adapter Card

32H3816 specifications

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