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Acer DAC960PG, DAC960PJ Preinstallation Planning, •SCSI cabling, •SCSI termination, This chapter covers:, •SCSI drive preparation, •Limitations on mixing Narrow and Wide SCSI drives

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Preinstallation Planning

This chapter covers:

•SCSI termination•SCSI cabling•SCSI drive preparation•Limitations on mixing Narrow and Wide SCSI drives

Mylex Disk Array Controllers are designed to work in a variety of SCSI RAID application environments. Certain configuration steps need to be performed prior to installing the controller into a RAID environment.

Manual No. 775012

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Contents

Page Page © Copyright 2000 Mylex Corporation Greetings Please Notice Our Policy Conventions Page Contents Introduction Preinstallation Planning Installation Controller Battery Backup Unit Option DAC960PG and DAC960PJ Specifications Error Messages Enclosure Management Regulatory Information Glossary Page Introduction Controller Features and Functions Operating System Support Hardware Software User-suppliedItems Preinstallation Planning SCSI Termination Page SCSI Cabling SCSI Drive Preparation Mixing Narrow and Wide SCSI Devices Page Installation Connectors and Jumpers External SCSI Connectors Safety Considerations Installing the Controller Safety check Page Controller Start-up Setting BIOS Options Enable 8GByte or 2GByte Drives BIOS Configuration Utility (RAID EzAssist) Operating System Operating System Device Drivers Global Array Manager (GAM) Server Global Array Manager (GAM) Client In Case of Problems Page Battery Backup Unit Option Features Installation Tools Needed Procedure Page Page Battery Conditioning Prior to Use Set-up– Enabling the Write-BackCache Battery Backup Capacity Removing the Battery Backup Module General Operational Description Status Indication Battery and Charge Circuit Recycling the Battery Onboard Battery Battery Charge Life External Battery Module Dimensions Environmental Page DAC960PG DAC960PJ Physical and Environmental Specifications Page Error Messages Installation Abort NVRAM Error Page Enclosure Management Page Regulatory Information Manufacturer’s Name: Manufacturer’s Address: Declares that the product: Product Name: Model Numbers: Responsible Party Name: Address: Trade Name: Model Number: DAC960PG/PJ Community of Europe Underwriters Laboratories Listing and Warning Page Glossary AcceleRAID™ Active Termination Application Server ASIC Automatic Rebuild BBU BIOS BIOS Configuration Utility Booting (or Bootstrapping) Bus Cables Cache Cache Flush Cache Line Size Conservative Cache Consistency Check Data Transfer Rate DB-9 Device Driver Disk Array Disk Drive Disk System Drive Groups, Drive Packs Drivers ECC EDO EEPROM EISA Embedded Storage Controller Failback Failover Failover Port Failure Fast SCSI Gigabyte Global Array Manager (GAM) HDM Host Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Hot Spare Hot Standby Hot Swap In-LineTerminator Interface I/O Bus ISA JBOD Jumper Kilobyte Logical Drive States LVD Megabit Megabyte Mirrored Cache Mirroring MTBF Narrow SCSI NVRAM Offline Online Parity Parity Check PCI Physical Device Physical Disk Drive PROM Protocol RAID RAID Levels RAID Migration RAM RISC RJ-11, RJ-45 ROM SCSI SCSI Adapters SCSI Drive SCSI Drive States SCSI Interrupt Steering Logic (SISL) SDRAM Segment Size Sequential I/O Server SIMM SISL SMART SNMP Standard Disk Drive Stripe Order Stripe Size Stripe Width Striping Sustained Data Transfer Rate Synchronous Data Transfer System Drives Target ID Terminator Ultra SCSI (Fast 20 SCSI) Ultra Wide SCSI Ultra2 SCSI (Fast 40 SCSI) Wide SCSI Write-BackCache Customer Identification DAC960 Identification System Information Pack Configuration System Drive Configuration Page Mylex Warranty - Customer Policy