Cisco Systems UCS C210 manual RAID Controller Cabling

Appendix

Enabling the Mezzanine Card RAID Controller in the BIOS

When using the supported mezzanine-style RAID controller cards, you must enable the ICH10R controller in Enhanced mode.

Step 1 Make sure that a RAID cable is attached between the mezzanine card and the disk backplane. Step 2 Boot the server and press F2 when prompted to enter the BIOS Setup utility.

Step 3 Select the Advanced tab, then Mass Storage Controllers Configuration.

Step 4 Set Onboard SATA Controller to Enabled.

Step 5 Set SATA Mode to Enhanced.

Step 6 Press F10 to save your changes and exit the utility.

Step 7 To set up a RAID configuration when using the mezzanine card, boot the server and press Ctrl-Cwhen prompted to start the WebBIOS utility.

RAID Controller Cabling

The RAID controller connectors in this server are shown in Figure C-1. The blue line indicates the recommended cable routing path from the backplane to the possible controller locations.

Figure C-1 RAID Controller Connectors

	4
1
2	3

1	Extender or expander backplane	3	Mezzanine card connector
2	Integrated RAID connector on	4	LSI MegaRAID PCIe card connectors
	motherboard

Cisco UCS C210 Server Installation and Service Guide

OL-20887-02 C-3