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2 How to Install Accessories Inside Your PC Workstation

 

Installing Mass Storage Devices

Installing a Hard

This PC Workstation has an integrated Ultra SCSI controller, an Ultra

Disk Drive

SCSI interface board and an integrated Ultra ATA-33 IDE controller.

 

• The Ultra ATA-33 IDE controller, on the PCI bus, supports up to two

 

fast (33 MB per second) IDE devices.

 

• The Ultra wide 16-bit SCSI controller is dedicated to hard disk drives

 

and supports up to five internal SCSI devices.

 

• The Ultra SCSI 16-bit interface board, installed in a PCI slot,

 

supports up to 13 external 16-bit SCSI devices and automatically

 

switches to non-Ultra or standard mode (data transfer rate of 20 MB

 

per second). The Ultra 8-bit internal connector supports up to two

 

internal peripherals at up to 20 MB per second.

Disk Striping

To achieve top performance through disk striping, a RAIDport™ is

 

provided on the system board aligned with PCI socket 3.

 

When the Adaptec® RAIDport adapter is installed in the PCI socket

 

and RAIDport, the adapter sets up and accelerates disk striping on

 

hard disks connected to the internal UltraWide 16-bit SCSI controller.

 

The Adaptec® RAIDport adapter should be used with one or two

 

stripped hard disks.

 

 

NOTE

Disk striping is supported only in Windows NT 4.0.

 

The Adaptec CI/O Array Manager software can be used to manage and

 

 

view the performance of the adapter.

 

Although the RAIDport adapter is normally set up to maximize disk

 

performance (“RAID 0” configuration), it can instead be configured to

 

provide mirroring for extra data security (“RAID 1” configuration).

 

For more information, refer to “The HP FastRAID Option” on page 94.

Before Installing an

Refer to the drive’s installation guide to see if you must set jumpers or if

IDE Hard Disk

there is a special installation procedure to follow.

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XU specifications

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