Installing the Hardware
Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller
Figure 1 shows a 3ware Serial ATA RAID controller with twelve ports. Up to twelve drives can be attached to this particular controller, through serial ATA cables.
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Figures 2 and 3 show 3ware Serial ATA RAID controllers with 8 ports (there are two versions of the 9500S-8 controller). The earlier models use Pchip v1.4 and are not BBU-compatible. The more recent models use Pchip v1.5 and are BBU-compatible. Although the controllers look very similar, the location of the overall LED drive status indicator is different on the two versions, as shown in the respective figures. If you are not certain which version you have, you can use the 3ware CLI to determine the Pchip version
(tw_cli c0 show pchip).
123ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
