Installation Process

Preparing the SCSI Drives

To prepare the drives for installation, follow these steps:

1.Remove any terminators attached to the drive or set any drive termination jumpers to the disabled position.

2.Set the SCSI IDs on the drives.

3.Enable term power on the drives.

Refer to the drive manual for specific information about drive configuration settings.

Installing Cables and Setting Termination

Please refer to Table 2-3 on page 2-15 for SCSI Formats and Bus Length requirements.

4.Connect the SCSI cable from the internal disk drive to the SCSI connector on the AcceleRAID 170 controller as shown in

Figure 2-8.(The controller is already connected to the system board.)

Figure 2-8. Connecting Disk Drives to the AcceleRAID 170

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